364 Quotes About Scripture

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    What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to Him?~Deuteronomy‬ ‭4:7

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  • Author Eugene H. Peterson
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    Obedience is the thing, living in active response to the living God. The most important question we ask of this text is not, 'What does this mean?' but 'What can I obey?' A simple act of obedience will open up our lives to this text far more quickly than any number of Bible studies and dictionaries and concordances.

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  • Author Eugene H. Peterson
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    Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience.This is also true.

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  • Author Eugene H. Peterson
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    What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much smaller world of our science and economics and politics that provides the so-called worldview in which we are used to working out our daily concerns.

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