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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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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

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Amber Hurdle

"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

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Amber Hurdle

"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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Amber Hurdle

"Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here."

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Amber Hurdle

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."

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Amber Hurdle

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

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Amber Hurdle

"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."

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Amber Hurdle

"One of our deepest needs is to be at home."

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Amber Hurdle

"The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe."

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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
"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
"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

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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."

Art

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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
"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."

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

Being

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

Christ

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