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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 lived with a…
- Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware…
- Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and…
- Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they…
- Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to…
- 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…
- This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.
- The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In…
- The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness…
- Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
- It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will…
- Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
- Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the…
- When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps…
- Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- 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.…
- The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and…
- I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think…
- A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is…
- Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the…
- Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for…
- 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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