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We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

Henri Nouwen

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.
HENRI NOUWEN

Angel Drink Each Other Need Sorrow Strength
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
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
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
I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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Doubt Help Moments Myself Trust
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Hard Time Inspirational Rejection Thinking
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
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing that is a friend who cares.
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Care Friendship Grief Moments Silence Time Tolerance
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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Illusion Life Property Share Violence
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Feeling Healing Hide Oneself
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
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
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
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
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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Community Feeling Solitude Strong
Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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Joy Kiss Life Moments Ourselves Sadness Time

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

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We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

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