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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.

Henri Nouwen

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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Healing Hide Question Service Wound
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Feeling Healing Hide Oneself
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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God Himself Listening Open Prayer
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
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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Community Food Mindset People Relationship Togetherness
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
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
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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Greatness Life Popularity Power Rejection Success Trap
The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
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Beyond Depression Feeling Happiness Joy Life Mood Ourselves Spiritual Victim
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
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
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Himself Impossible Listening Live Serious Solitude Spiritual
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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God Knowledge Myself Wonder
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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Ability Heart Human Mindset Ourselves Thinking
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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Essential Life Myself
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Experience Joy Love Yourself

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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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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