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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”

Henri Nouwen

Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Greatness Heart Wound Yourself
Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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Ground Hide Stand Treasure Trust
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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God Himself Listening Open Prayer
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.
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Discover Effort Gift Possession Result Share Solitude Worth
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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Healing Hide Question Service Wound
Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
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Dare Friendship God Love Reality Yourself
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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Direction Fear Generosity Love Time
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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God Knowledge Myself Wonder
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Greatness Life Popularity Power Rejection Success Trap
Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.
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Afraid God Guide Hands Love See Trust
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Forget Life Ourselves Tragedy Worth
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
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Essential Life Myself
You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
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Kind Live Thinking Way Yourself
If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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Feeling Love Problem Rejection Yourself
Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.
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Afraid Discover Empty Fear God Hold On Myself Stand
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space

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