- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
- Nov 07, 2020
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
- Casts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020