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.
More Quotes from James Green Somerville:
It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.James Green Somerville
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.
James Green Somerville
There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.
James Green Somerville
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.
James Green Somerville
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.
James Green Somerville
As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.
James Green Somerville
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Place QuotesI am not interested in splitting the white vote.
Harold Washington
Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
Joy Page
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen