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Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

Henri Nouwen

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
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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Greatness Illusion Leadership Man Thinking
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
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
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Compassionate Human Power Weakness
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
Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
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Community Food Mindset People Relationship Togetherness
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
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
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
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Division Healing Live Love Privilege Rival World Wound
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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Human Learning Morning Patience Wait
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves
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
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
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
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
We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.
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Angel Drink Each Other Need Sorrow Strength

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