Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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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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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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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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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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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
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I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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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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