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By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.


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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.



What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.



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.

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.



You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.



Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.



My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.



In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.



The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.



O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.



Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.





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I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.



I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.



You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.



If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.

If they need my C.V., they don’t know my work.



Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.



You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.



I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!



We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.



Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.



To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.




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This page presents the quote "By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.". Author of this quote is Henri Nouwen. This quote is about community, wells, prayer,.