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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 sisters. Up until…
- Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the…
- This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
- Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask…
- My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in…
- The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
- When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
- 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…
- 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 Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to…
- The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
- When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.
- To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
- Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.…
- We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of…
- We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be…
- Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who…
- solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that…
- We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace…
- 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…
- Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart.…
- When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives…
- Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a…
- Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the…
- If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough