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Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.

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Nicky Gumbel
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 28
Anglican Priest
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Inner and Outer London
Nicholas Glyn Paul Gumbel
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Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.
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Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.
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Prayer for the city is important. For every city in the world, the city should be prayed for. Particularly for London, it is a strategic city for the UK as well as the world, therefore the future of London is significant to the UK, and also the rest of the world.
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The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
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If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
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Physical heat sometimes accompanies the filling of the Spirit and people experience it in their hands or some other part of their bodies. One person described a feeling of 'glowing all over'. Another said she experienced 'liquid heat'. Still another described 'burning in my arms when I was not hot'.
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Church is not an organization you join it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.
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There are many things that were harder to discuss back in the 80's and early 90's than they are now, and this also works the opposite way for other things.
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Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.
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Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.
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The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.
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Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.
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The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.
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I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.
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The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.
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With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.
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When things aren't working out as you wish, be patient. Stop trying to move ahead of God. His timing is perfect. Trust Him.
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Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.
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I believe that sex is for marriage, and that's regardless of whether it's homosexual or hetero sexual.
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Probably one of the strongest movements of the Holy Spirit is in the Roman Catholic Church, so there's not a huge theological difference between the official teaching of the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church.
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