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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."
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"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."
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"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."
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"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
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"For I can raise no money by vile means."
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"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."
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"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
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"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
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"The passion for money is never fickle."
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"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
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"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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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."
God
"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."
Money
"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
"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."
World
"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
"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."
People
"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."
People
"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."
God
"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."
Home
"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."
People
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