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All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Kill Adultery Commandments Commit
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For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Tax Love Reward Those
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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Good Credit Even Sinner
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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

Father Love So You
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Authority Earth Given Heaven
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Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Anyone Hears Voice Stand
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Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Give Beg Takes Away
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Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Earth Blessed Meek Inherit
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No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Brave Disturb No Unexpected
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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Willing Believe What Wish
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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Have Grow Accomplishments Both
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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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To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
Blessing Someone Most GIve
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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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Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Prayer Concrete Home God
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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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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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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Aim Change Conditions Constantly
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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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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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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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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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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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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Educate Entertain Entertained Hope
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Jesus Countries Imposed Dominated
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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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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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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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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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