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I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must ...

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Craig GroeschelIt: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It

Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life fo...

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If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.

Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the wor...

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He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an ‘appoi...

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Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to ...

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The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here...

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The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most...

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That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject w...

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A true Christian lives and labors on earth not for himself but for his neighbor. Therefore the whole...

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When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils o...

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My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an in...

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I would like to encourage you to stop thinking of what you're doing as ministry. Start realizing tha...

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[O]ur English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are m...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or p...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving o...

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To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who l...

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The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the lan...

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Bill BrysonAt Home: A Short History of Private Life

I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men an...

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Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny ...

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