Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
HENRI NOUWENJoy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
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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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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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Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you’d rather not go.
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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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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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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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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.
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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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