The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. … - Eugene H. Peterson

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There's no question about it. Beaumarie St. Claire and I, we created Irish DreamTime after GoldenEye hit. We made movies like Thomas Crown and The Matador. And in between my stints as James Bond, I'd go off and I'd do something like The Matador or Tailor of Panama, which was spy related, just so I could shake it up. It's a genre which really appeals to me.

Eugene H. Peterson

The hard work of sowing seed in what looks like perfectly empty earth has a time of harvest. All suffering, pain, emptiness, disappointment is seed: sow it in God and He will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

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The Latin words humus, soil
earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble. ' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

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Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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