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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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Nicky Gumbel
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 28
Anglican Priest
Author
Barrister
Writer
Inner and Outer London
Nicholas Glyn Paul Gumbel
Kind
Kindness
Door
Doors
Powerful
Words
Force
May
Unlock
Better
Iron

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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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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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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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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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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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If the grass looks greener on the other side, it is probably astroturf.
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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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Don't judge a person by their past. They don't necessarily live there anymore.
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What unites the church is infinitely more important than what divides us.
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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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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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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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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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Churches are not museums that display perfect people. They are hospitals where the wounded, hurt, injured and broken find healing.
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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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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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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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The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
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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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