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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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Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

Blessing Ministers Weakness Serve
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means 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.

Advice Wounds Rather Tender
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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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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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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Production-Oriented Occupation Identifying Endanger
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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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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Disneyland Go Idea Just
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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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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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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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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.

Business Destiny Idea Status
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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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Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Peacemaking Includes Member Vocation
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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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How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Longer Clear Truth Simple
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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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A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Life Without Center Quiet
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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.

Travel Downward Road Constantly
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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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Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

First Midst Destroying Prevent
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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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The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Resistance Tightly Desire Betrays
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Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Ministers Practicing Lonely Many
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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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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.

Fear Other Create Intimacy
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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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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.

Intimacy Beign Distance Horizon
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Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Efforts Disconnet Suffering Hurt
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

Confident Sexy Woman Guys
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Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Holds Surprise Hearts Friends
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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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Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Solitude Profound Deeper Anger
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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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The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Man VictimSlowly Prevent Consistently
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To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Learn Patience Rebel Hardship
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Failure Opportuinity Intelligently Simply
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.

Beauty White Flavour Shade
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Mistake Necessary Worthwhile Achievement
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I’m just interested in life and the world and exploring.

Life Exist World Explore
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Things Own Angle Point
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I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Woman Strong Job Pants
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