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