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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.

Henri Nouwen

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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God Place Space
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
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
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
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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Life Maturity Spiritual Yourself
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves
If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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Feeling Love Problem Rejection Yourself
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
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
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Fear Greatness Joy Love Pain Risk Strong Worth
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
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
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
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
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Feeling Healing Hide Oneself
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 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

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