Your heart is greater than your wounds.
HENRI NOUWENWe are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
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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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We are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
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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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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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Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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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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Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
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Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear 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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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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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
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Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
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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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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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