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1697 Clergyman Quotes

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

Audience Divide Political Subject
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All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Life Been Die Grow
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The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Become Eternal Personally Important
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God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Give God Grace Hope
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I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Believe Christ Covered Heart
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No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

Death Deeply Hurt Loved
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Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Believe Interest Life Lose
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Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

Extremely Lost Privacy Realize
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I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Along Chapter Every Fellow
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I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.
Believe God Prove Scientifically
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I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Business Government Park Run
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God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Channel Give God Hand
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'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Anyone Because Before Behind
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When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Age Choice Christ Grace
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Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

Because Claim Does Exist
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Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Christ Dead Flesh God
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Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Example Excuse Filled God
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Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.”

Distaste Stunts Growth Limits
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“Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.”

Success Failure Shrink Stretching
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It is wrong to use equal language for unequal actions.

Equal Language Actions Wrong
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Your harvest is not in view until your prayers rise up to heaven.

Harvest Prayers Rise Heaven
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Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!

Kings Don't Beg Destiny
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A person with a poor mind set is always afraid to take risk.

Person Poor Mind set Always
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Love Acknwoledge Gratitude Explicit
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
Blessing Someone Most GIve
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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Poverty Mentally God Hold
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Spiritual Life Beyond Existence
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Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Prayer Concrete Home God
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Healing Friend Silent Grief
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People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

People Handicaps Hearts Together
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Discipline Everything Planned Create
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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

Christian Leaders Trained Careful
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Peace Anger Trust Resentment
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Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

Blessed Poor Deeper Communion
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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Journey Teaching Love Allowing
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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Increasing Crisis Stronger Journey
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To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Minister Precise Powerlessness Seldom
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Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

Blessing Ministers Weakness Serve
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Advice Wounds Rather Tender
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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Silence Speaking Closeness Cure
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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Success Victimized Culture Corporation
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One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Tasks Unite Create Conflict
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When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

Cling Defend Freely Shared
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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Production-Oriented Occupation Identifying Endanger
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Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

People Money Opportunity Resources
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Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Christian Leadership Relationship People
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God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful
Present God Joyful Painful
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When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Recognize Pray Festive Moments
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Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Peacemaking Includes Member Vocation
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