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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 death, hope stronger…
- A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our…
- Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
- 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…
- If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
- The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can…
- Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it…
- Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect…
- Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak…
- Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can…
- We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our…
- A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said…
- Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things…
- What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground…
- Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What…
- 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…
- Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It…
- 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…
- Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
- 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,…
- There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.
- Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside…
- I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of…
- Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful…
- To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — 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
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle