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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…
- To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and…
- 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…
- Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming…
- 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…
- Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern,…
- 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...…
- Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your…
- 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…
- We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have…
- When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life,…
- Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
- 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…
- It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy…
- Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .
- That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be…
- Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable…
- Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
- It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there…
- Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into…
- Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new…
- Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It…
- The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable…
- Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong