Eugene H. Peterson - The Message (2004)

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The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

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Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

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A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

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That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.

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Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

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