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James Green Somerville

"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."

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"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."

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A.E. Samaan

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

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A.E. Samaan

"See money " currency - as the flow of energy and giving that cycles between you, others and me. Now let it flow kindly, fairly and mindfully."

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A.E. Samaan

"Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money."

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A.E. Samaan

"Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash."

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A.E. Samaan

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

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A.E. Samaan

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

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A.E. Samaan

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

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A.E. Samaan

"Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its "money"."

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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."

God

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

World

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James Green Somerville
"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."

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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."

God

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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
"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
"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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James Green Somerville
"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."

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James Green Somerville
"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."

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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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