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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…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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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…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils…
— George Whitefield
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Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation.…
— Henri Nouwen
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We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is…
— Jerry Bridges
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It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew…
— Ann Druyan
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To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey…
— Kathryn Lasky
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and…
— Timothy Keller
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