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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…
- Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the…
- 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…
- When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a…
- ...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until…
- 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…
- Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a…
- One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place.…
- Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and…
- One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us…
- 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…
- Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before,…
- Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from…
- 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 guard of…
- 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…
- Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in…
- 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…
- It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
- The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
- Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery…
- 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…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong