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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”

Henri Nouwen

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
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
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Dare Friendship God Love Reality Yourself
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
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
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live
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
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
We are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
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Accomplishment Admission Ourselves Production Success Vulnerable Weakness
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
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
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
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
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
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space
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

You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”

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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”

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