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I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

Henri Nouwen

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
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
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
Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you’d rather not go.
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Easy Hard Life Radical Yourself
Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Greatness Heart Wound Yourself
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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Fake Illusion Solitude Transformation
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
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Change Forgiveness Remember Way
Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.
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Deep Eyes God Heart Place Trust Unique
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
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live
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
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
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 often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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God Knowledge Myself Wonder
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

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