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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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God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act…
— Kathleen H. Hughes
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The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To…
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The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I want to go barefoot because it’s holy ground; I want to be running because time is short and none of us…
— Bob Goff
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Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak…
— Jennifer Worth
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Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
— Oscar Wilde
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
— Stephen Covey
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Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.
— Christina Rossetti
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Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.…
— J D Salinger
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For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light,…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide…
— Brennan Manning
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Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that…
— Henri Nouwen
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