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It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
Joan D. Chittister
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The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.
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prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
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Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.
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We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
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I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
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Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.
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Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it
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The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
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Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
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Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
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Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
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Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. It proposes, year after year, to immerse us over and over again into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually we become what we say we are - followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God
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Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.
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Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.
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Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.
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We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.
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June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.
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