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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Ready Believe Ourselves Wish
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Love Acknwoledge Gratitude Explicit
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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful Powerless Gaints Paradox
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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Poverty Mentally God Hold
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Spiritual Life Beyond Existence
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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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Healing Friend Silent Grief
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People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.

People Handicaps Hearts Together
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Discipline Everything Planned Create
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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

Christian Leaders Trained Careful
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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.

Peace Anger Trust Resentment
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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Journey Teaching Love Allowing
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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Increasing Crisis Stronger Journey
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To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Minister Precise Powerlessness Seldom
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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Silence Speaking Closeness Cure
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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Success Victimized Culture Corporation
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One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Tasks Unite Create Conflict
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Adversity Best Had Happens
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Build Create Design Dream
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
Animal Funnier Human Human Animal
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Formal Gardens Guess Instinct
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Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

People Money Opportunity Resources
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Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Christian Leadership Relationship People
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Children Code Diminished Exchange
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Communication Inventions Language Mass
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God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful
Present God Joyful Painful
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Believe Implicitly Thing Way
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Book Island More Pirate
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Caricatures Cartoon Cartoon Characters Characters
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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Allow Around Geniuses Our
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

Pray God Conversation Kick
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
Woman Queen Different Offer
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When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Recognize Pray Festive Moments
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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.

Tremendous Depression Real Rather
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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.

Inclination Show Reveal Trembling
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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.

People Willing Needs Allows
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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

Christain Completely Irrelevant Nothing
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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.

Peacemaker Divine Gift Proclaim
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Community Wounded People Broken
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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

People Phosphorized Untouched Instead
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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.

Spiritual People Beloved Daughters
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For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don’t have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.

Music Emotions Tragic Greatest
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The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Enemies Real Unalterable Unpredictable
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Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

People Talent Success Lift
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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.

Prayer Source Content Goal
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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.

Solitude Grows Community Intimacy
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Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

God Bring Hidden AGift
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Create Identity Dominate Strong
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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Perhaps Nothing Moments Spiritual
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In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

Solitude Creation Life Response
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I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’

Regret Fine Talk Serious
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