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"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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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."
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"If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."
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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
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"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."
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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
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"Every creature is a word of God."
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"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."
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"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
"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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