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Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

Henri Nouwen

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
Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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God Place Space
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
Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
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Day Hope Ourselves Sun Talk True Walk
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
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Children Conquer Country Defeat God Man Woman
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
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Give Up Humanity Kiss Life Love Ourselves Smile Word
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”
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Call Listening Prayer Voice Yourself
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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Healing Health Help Offering Reach
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
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
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Fear Greatness Joy Love Pain Risk Strong Worth
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
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Generation Result See Trust
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Generosity Life Love Opportunity Time
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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Community Force Hungry Institution Ourselves Rule
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Foundation Life Patience Spiritual Time
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

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