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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Henri Nouwen

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves
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
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
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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Greatness Illusion Leadership Man Thinking
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
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Complain Discover Interrupt Life Myself Work
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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Myself Search Son Time
Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
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Beautiful Flower Joy Ourselves Pain Power Water
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Change Forgiveness Remember Way
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
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
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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Close Distance Lose Silence Word
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
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Division Healing Live Love Privilege Rival World Wound
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
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
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Alone Compassionate Courage God Help People See Sight
We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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Fall Preparation Rain See

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