Quotes by James Green Somerville - Page 1

I know the world is hungry for good ministry.
James Green Somerville /
Hungry
Ministry
Good World Know
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It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
James Green Somerville /
Ministry
Counts
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As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.
James Green Somerville /
Christ
Served
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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 from God just for me.
James Green Somerville /
Bed
Fervent
Lying
Pray
God Me Night
Ceiling
God Night Me
Hoping
Scroll
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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.
James Green Somerville /
Black And White
Congregation
International
Great World City
Washington
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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 calling me to be his in the first place.
James Green Somerville /
Ministry
God I Am Me
God Me I Am
Enter
First Place
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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 as a graphic designer.
James Green Somerville /
Graduation
Designer
Married
Semester
Dropped
Graduated
Switched
Transferred
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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 I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.
James Green Somerville /
Glad
Weight
Confess
Minister
Sundays
Tremble
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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 accepted that call and so we never had much money.
James Green Somerville /
Accepted
Poor
Poverty
Taken
Virginia
Vow
West
West Virginia
Among
Call
Presbyterian
Working
Minister
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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 and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
James Green Somerville /
Diplomats
Preparation
Good Home Me
Ceos
Washington
Desperately
Group
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John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.
James Green Somerville /
Calling
Christ
Dignity
Messiah
Seems
Voice
Baptist
Forth
John
Supposed
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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 be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.
James Green Somerville /
Congregation
Federal Reserve
Governors
Homeless
Ill
People Talk How
Mentally
Judges
Reserve
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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.
James Green Somerville /
Depression
Great Depression
Southern
Virginia
West
West Virginia
Anybody Else
Great People Poor
Hear People
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