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“God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.”

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“We have become human doings more than human beings, and the verb “rest,” as Jesus uses it, is largely foreign to us.”

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In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

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If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.

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In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship,…

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Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

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You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain…

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“In the end, we do not so much reclaim what we have lost as discover a significantly new self in and through the process.…

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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those…

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“I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and…

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Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

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“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it…

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We don't have much wisdom about the second half when things really open up and end up looking a lot more progressive. In my own Catholic church, for example, we're sort of circling the wagons today by thinking that more moral strictures, more exclusionary rules on this or that, that that's going to do for the first half of life.…

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The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes.…

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I have a great love of animals and laughter.

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Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

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... I'm on the road right now ... all is well ... Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is great, loved it ...

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Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than…

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One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no…

Mother Teresa

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As children of God, knowing of His great love and His ultimate knowledge of what is best for our eternal welfare, we trust in…

Dallin H. Oaks

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As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen…

Margaret D. Nadauld

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Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the…

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That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written…

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Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything…

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“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if…

John Bright

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