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Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

Henri Nouwen

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
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
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Hard Time Inspirational Rejection Thinking
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Change Forgiveness Remember Way
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
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
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
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Feeling Healing Hide Oneself
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
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
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Attention God Life Path Pay Yourself
Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
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Compassionate Distinct Judgement Prevent Togetherness
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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Healing Hide Question Service 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

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