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- To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,…
- 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…
- As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a…
- 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…
- 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…
- The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and…
- 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…
- Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
- As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each…
- Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions…
- By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.
- Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not…
- Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
- Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God…
- It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run…
- Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but…
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