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If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.


Eugene H. Peterson

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EUGENE CERNAN We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we wen...
EUGENE CERNAN Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
EUGENE JARECKI I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.
EUGENE CERNAN I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I p...
EUGENE CHADBOURNE Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
EUGENE IONESCO Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, s...
EUGENE CERNAN Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist...
EUGENE WIGNER Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the w...
EUGENE MCCARTHY Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the gam...
EUGENE MCCARTHY A taste for simplicity cannot last for long. -Eugene Delacroix.
EUGENE DELACROIX One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see,...
EUGENE CERNAN What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the ...
EUGENE DELACROIX To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of othe...
EUGENE CLOUTIER What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing ...
EUGENE DELACROIX You can only predict things after they've happened.
EUGENE IONESCO Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all...
EUGENE DEBS The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
EUGENE MCCARTHY Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
EUGENE DELACROIX Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kin...
EUGENE MIRMAN It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
EUGENE MCCARTHY Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
EUGENE KENNEDY If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually not...
EUGENE DELACROIX I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt a...
EUGENE LEVY is a look at what happens on a movie set when the word Oscar gets bandied about.
EUGENE LEVY 'American Pie' was a big movie for me. No one knew it at the time, but it allowed me to be offered s...
EUGENE LEVY I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get p...
EUGENE LEVY Detroit is still seen as the tough city, a city that has a reputation for high crime, ... The tough ...
EUGENE LEVY It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
EUGENE IONESCO The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public ...
EUGENE JARECKI The truth of faith is a slender, glowing element that runs through even the seemingly ordinary and u...
EUGENE KENNEDY I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Mose...
EUGENE DEBS They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your patriotic duty to go to war and to ...
EUGENE DEBS