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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

Henri Nouwen

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
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Life Ourselves Source Wound
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Hard Time Inspirational Rejection Thinking
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing that is a friend who cares.
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Care Friendship Grief Moments Silence Time Tolerance
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
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Children Conquer Country Defeat God Man Woman
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Day Joy Simplicity
Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
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Compassionate Distinct Judgement Prevent Togetherness
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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Healing Health Help Offering Reach
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
I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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Doubt Help Moments Myself Trust
Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
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Enemy Life Rejection Sacred Spiritual Voice
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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Life Maturity Spiritual Yourself
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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Close Distance Lose Silence Word
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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Myself Search Son Time
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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Compassionate Human Power Weakness
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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Greatness Illusion Leadership Man Thinking

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