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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Henri Nouwen

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
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
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
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
Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
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Beautiful Flower Joy Ourselves Pain Power Water
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
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Angry Blame Choice Hate Live Loss Time Wide
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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Dare Form Invitation Listening Silence Spiritual Stranger Yourself
Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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Ground Hide Stand Treasure Trust
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
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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Change Offering People Space
Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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Joy Kiss Life Moments Ourselves Sadness Time
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
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
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
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Darkness Desperate Hope Live
Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Fulfill Greatness Lying Ourselves

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

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