Latest Nicky Gumbel Quotes from Interviews

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• I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Battle, Enjoy

  Source: thegathering.com

• Even if you are at the peak of your career, and almost everyone is on some type of ladder to success and waiting to get to the top of their profession, but even if you get there is it enough? So think of this now rather than when you get there and not have thought about it before.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Thinking, Waiting, Enough

  Source: www.christiantoday.com

• There are many things that were harder to discuss back in the 80's and early 90's than they are now, and this also works the opposite way for other things.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Source: www.christiantoday.com

• 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.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Prayer, Important, World

  Source: www.christiantoday.com

• I think everybody needs healing. My understanding of human beings is that we were created in the image of God but we are all fallen, and Jesus died for us so that we can be redeemed. Every Christian is in a process of healing in some way. God's original creation was good, and in some ways fallen away from that. And in every area of our life we need to be healed and restored and to become more Christ-like.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations around the world. I know that it's different from the secular culture in the western world, but it's no different from the teaching of the church globally. We're Christians basically.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Teaching, Issues

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I'm a Christian. I'm committed to Jesus Christ and I want people to know about Christ, because it's the most wonderful thing. People can say, 'I'll try and give up drugs,' or 'I'll try and live a better life,' but actually, if you're trapped in that lifestyle, you need, I think, some supernatural power to get you out of it. It's not easy to get out of the kind of lifestyles those people are in where all your family are criminals and all your friends are criminals - that is not an easy break to make, and it is a hard thing for a lot of these people.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I believe that sex is for marriage, and that's regardless of whether it's homosexual or hetero sexual.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Sex, Believe, I Believe

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I was just praying quietly in tongues and I found that a really helpful way to pray. There are other times when I use the gift when I really feel I don't know what to pray or how to pray. I know what I feel but I just can't quite put it in to words, and I use that, I find it a helpful gift. I don't think you need to speak in tongues, I don't think all Christians do speak in tongues, nobody has to speak in tongues, nobody's forced to, but if somebody wants to I think it's a good gift.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I think God is back, I think there is a huge amount of spiritual interest in the country. And I think the bishops are supportive of it because they see people's lives being changed. They see the difference. I see people who've been in prison, whose lives have been messed up, who've been alcoholics, who've been drug addicts, set free and contributing to society.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• It doesn't really matter so much what the words are I don't think - maybe if you're a real expert in prayer you could do it through silence. But I think sometimes it helps to express it and to know you're expressing it to God. Paul talked about praying with your spirit and that's basically what it is, it's expressing what you feel deep down in a language which God gives you.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Prayer, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I think that the gifts of the spirit are always subject to the control of the person who's exercising them. You're not forced in to doing it. Love never forces. And therefore 'the spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophet' is another way it is put. You don't suddenly find yourself taken over by a spirit and find yourself speaking tongues. You're in control, but it's a gift. You can stop and start as you please, but it's a way of communicating with God.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Taken, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• In your relationship with God there are also times when you want to say things and you're trying to find the words to express them. In a human relationship sometimes you struggle for words and you've got to do it, but in a relationship with God he can actually give you a language which enables you to communicate. In a relationship with God you feel things and you want to express them and you're not limited by human language. You can express what you really feel in your heart, through a language that he gives you, and that helps you to communicate with God.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Struggle, Heart, Giving

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I think that when people experience something that seems to be supernatural, in some ways it cuts through the secular mindset.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Teaching, Differences, Catholic

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I was an atheist and I came to experience a relationship with God which had a radically transforming effect on my life, on my relationships, on every aspect of my life, for the better. So, obviously I hope other people will experience that.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Atheist, People, Aspect

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Labels, Ifs

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Personally I think people's labels are terribly unhelpful because they enable you to dismiss things.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Thinking, People, Labels

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• This may sound pernickety but I wouldn't describe myself as an evangelical. These are labels, which I don't think are helpful. If I was going to use any label it would be Christian, and if you push me any further I'd say I'm an Anglican - that's the family of the Church that I belong to. There's nothing wrong with any of the other labels, but if you have any of them I want them all. If you're going to say, 'I'm Catholic, liberal, evangelical...' let's have them all.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Thinking, Catholic

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I think a lot of people do have questions about life, 'What's the purpose of my life?', 'What's the meaning of my life?', 'Why am I here?' ... It's hard to find a place where you can discuss those issues. You can't go down to the pub and say, 'What do you think the meaning of life is?' But actually, most people have those questions, somewhere in the back of their minds. And if you can find a place where you can discuss it with a group of people who, like you, are outside of the Church, and it's a non-threatening, relaxed environment, quite a lot of people want to do that.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• 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.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Thinking, Church, Generations

  Source: www.theguardian.com