Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
HENRI NOUWENPrayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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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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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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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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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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We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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