James Green Somerville Quotes

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• I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message…
• I know the world is hungry for good ministry.
• I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when…
• While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in…
• Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part…
• I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people…
• My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he…
• I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked…
• It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
• There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To…
• We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the…

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