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  1. E.M. Forster _ A Room with a View

    He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ In the Name of Jesus:

    The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. That is the way Jesus came to reveal God's love. The great message that we have to carry, as ministers of God's Word and followers of Jesus, is that God loves us not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love and has chosen us to proclaim that love as the true source of all human life."
    book-quotechristianityjesusministry

  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Out of Solitude: Three

    This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have a strong tendency to refer to specialists. When someone does not feel well, we quickly think, 'Where can we find a doctor?' When someone is confused, we easily advise him to go to a counselor. And when someone is dying, we quickly call a priest. Even when someone wants to pray we wonder if there is a minister around.
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  4. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Out of Solitude: Three

    Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man not knowing what to say but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart. Those who are not afraid to hold a hand in gratitude, to shed tears in grief, and to let a sigh of distress arise straight from the heart, can break through paralyzing boundaries and witness the birth of a new fellowship, the fellowship of the broken.
    book-quotepainempathygratitude

  5. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ No Ordinary Time: Franklin and

    The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.
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  6. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    People will love him {Theodore Roosevelt} for the enemies he has made.
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  7. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
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  8. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.
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  9. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    Curiosity – if not desire, if not plain kindness – might have led him to greater zeal.
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  10. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.
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  11. John Updike _ Rabbit Is Rich

    The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken.
    book-quoteweddingchurchministry

  12. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".
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