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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own…
- The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed…
- 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 more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come…
- Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
- Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It…
- The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to…
- Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
- 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…
- The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart…
- Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
- One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity…
- Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not…
- People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better…
- Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to…
- Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in…
- To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need…
- To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness…
- You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your…
- 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…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle