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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Henri Nouwen

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Day Joy Simplicity
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
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
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
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
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Ability Heart Human Mindset Ourselves Thinking
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
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
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
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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I Love You Life Opportunity
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
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Alive Community Growth Heart Oneself Quality
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
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Forget Life Ourselves Tragedy Worth
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
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
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

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