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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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Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
— Mark Twain
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Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where…
— Charles Eisenstein
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As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we…
— Henri Nouwen
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Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance…
— Lucy Larcom
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The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is…
— Peter J. Gomes
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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts:…
— Jon Meacham
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Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.…
— Daniel Keyes
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human being is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what…
— Santanu Mishra
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