John Sentamu Quotes

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There is nothing more needed by humanity today than the recovery of a sense of 'beyond-ness' in the whole of life to revive the spring of wonder and adoration.

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The voice of God is active today as it has been down the centuries - provoking us to move, change, and recognize who we are and what - by God's help - we can become.

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This tiny minority is not going to stop me from telling people that if we become a society of friends and a society that will discover the wonderful love of God and Christ, we have a chance of leading the nation in prayer.

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God's acceptance of us just as we are, enables us to overcome our alienation and to experience the joy and the fulfillment of personal communion with God.

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God is working in the world today quite beyond the limits of our budgets, structures and expectation. His gospel, lived out in corporate-discipleship, has the power to transform our individual and corporate lives, our families, our communities and our nations. It has the power to break beyond our timidity and insufficiency.

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I want to treat every human personality as loved by God. He who has never sinned, said Jesus, let him cast the first stone. My mother was right when she said: 'Don't point a finger at anyone because you'll find three fingers pointing back at you.'

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Christians, go and find friends who are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, agnostics, atheists - not for the purpose of converting them to your beliefs, but for friendship, understanding, listening, hearing.

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Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys and its pains.

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A frog once begged a genie to turn it into a princess. The genie clicked his fingers and a gorgeous princess emerged. Later, having gone for a meal at the genie's restaurant, the princess found nothing on the menu that she liked.
She asked the genie whether she could order her favorite dish. "Yes, of course," the genie said. The princess turned excitedly to the waiter and said, "A large plate of flies!"

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The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

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