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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…
- 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…
- Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and…
- The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
- You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold…
- Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be…
- Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful…
- I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but…
- 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…
- Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they…
- 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…
- Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' -…
- We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will…
- 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…
- Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be…
- Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are…
- People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal…
- Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
- God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
- When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong