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- All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a…
- Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a…
- Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they…
- What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground…
- You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold…
- It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
- Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from…
- Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...…
- Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to…
- For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at…
- I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of…
- We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
- No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond…
- 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…
- Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot…
- The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness…
- Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It…
- The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the…
- To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the…
- Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and…
- As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each…
- Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can…
- Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' -…
- The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
- A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me.…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle