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- 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…
- The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In…
- Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present…
- Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
- Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
- 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…
- God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
- Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who…
- Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
- Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the…
- 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…
- Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and…
- When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives…
- If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you…
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