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We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
Catholic Priest
Presbyter
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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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.
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Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.
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The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
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It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.
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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.
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