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"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."
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"The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental."
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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
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"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?"
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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."
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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."
Art
"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."
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"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."
Being
"As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be."
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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."
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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."
People
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