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Don't be afraid of pressure. Pressure is what transforms a lump of coal into a diamond.

Nicky Gumbel

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Nicky Gumbel
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 28
Anglican Priest
Author
Barrister
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Nicholas Glyn Paul Gumbel
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Diamond
Coal
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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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People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.
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Just because you can't see the air, doesn't mean you stop breathing. And just because you can't see God, doesn't mean you stop believing
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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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Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.
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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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I believe that sex is for marriage, and that's regardless of whether it's homosexual or hetero sexual.
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Appreciate those who love you. Serve those who need you. Forgive those who hurt you. Thank those who help you.
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Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems
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Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
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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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Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.
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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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Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect!
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If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.
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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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What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.
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Anyone can stay true to your face, it's the people who stay true behind your back that really count.
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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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