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Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.

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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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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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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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Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.
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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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Things are changed by a faith that defies obstacles and laughs at impossibilities.
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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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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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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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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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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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The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
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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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Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.
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Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.
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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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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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I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.
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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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The cross is bigger than your mistakes, bigger than your regrets, bigger than the secrets you hold. The cross stands above it all.
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