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Henri Nouwen

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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.Â
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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.Â
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As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their right place.
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As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their right place.
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"Did I offer peace today?Did I bring a smile to someone?Did I offer healing?Did I let go of anger and resentment?Did I love?Did I forgive?These are the real questions.Trust that the littlest gesture will bear fruitshere in this world and life to come."
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"Did I offer peace today?Did I bring a smile to someone?Did I offer healing?Did I let go of anger and resentment?Did I love?Did I forgive?These are the real questions.Trust that the littlest gesture will bear fruitshere in this world and life to come."
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A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
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A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.
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Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.
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Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.
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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self rejection.
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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self rejection.
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When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
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When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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Friends share our pain and touch our woundswith a gentle and tender hand.
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Friends share our pain and touch our woundswith a gentle and tender hand.
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
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