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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…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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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…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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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…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering,…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering…
— Rumi
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Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.
— Peter Kreeft
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill…
— Philip Yancey
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I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is…
— Dan Barker
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The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would…
— James A. Baldwin
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Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us…
— Henri Nouwen
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Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.
— Dalai Lama
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