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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

Henri Nouwen

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Greatness Life Popularity Power Rejection Success Trap
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
Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.
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Afraid God Guide Hands Love See Trust
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
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
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
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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Close Distance Lose Silence Word
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live
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
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
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
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
We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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Fall Preparation Rain See
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
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

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

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