"We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody……" — James Green Somerville
"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 Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else."
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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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Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and…
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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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