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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.

Henri Nouwen

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Change Forgiveness Remember Way
Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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God Place Space
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
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Hard Time Inspirational Rejection Thinking
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
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
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
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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Prayer Religious Spirit
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
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
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
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
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
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

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.

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