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James Green Somerville

"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."

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"Heaven means to be one with God."

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"I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not."

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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."

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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

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"God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness."

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"Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil."

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Akshay Vasu

"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."

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"I am, therefore there is a God."

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Akshay Vasu

"Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods."

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James Green Somerville
"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."

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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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James Green Somerville
"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."

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James Green Somerville
"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."

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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
"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."

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James Green Somerville
"As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be."

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James Green Somerville
"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."

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James Green Somerville
"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."

God

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James Green Somerville
"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."

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