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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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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

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"Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted."

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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
"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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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
"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."

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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."

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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 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

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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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