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"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."
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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
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"In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."
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"I know the world is hungry for good ministry."
World
"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
"It's not just being called to the ministry that counts."
Being
"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
"As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be."
Christ
"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
"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
"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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