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Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.

Nicky Gumbel

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Nicky Gumbel
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 28
Anglican Priest
Author
Barrister
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Inner and Outer London
Nicholas Glyn Paul Gumbel
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Be thankful for every day. Learn from mistakes. Don't dwell on regrets. Forgive with love. Gain strength from every struggle.
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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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Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.
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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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Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
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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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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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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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Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore.
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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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A lot of problems in the world would be solved if we talked to each other instead of about each other.
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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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Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.
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Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.
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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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We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
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Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.
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Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out your purpose.
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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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