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"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."
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"Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001."
"When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear."
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
"The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows."
"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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