23 quotes
“You do not think your way into a new kind of living you live your way into a new kind of thinking and faith leads the way”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us we often find that it is those who have chosen to share our pain.”
“In our own woundedness we can become a source of life for others and that mutual healing is the deepest gift”
“The great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there without compassion”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who inspire our faith”
“Healing does not require the denial of our pain but rather an encounter with it in the presence of one who cares”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who have shared our pain”
“Joy does not simply happen to us we have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day through faith”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair and confusion is the one who practices faith through presence”
“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 have chosen rather to share our pain”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair who can stay with us in an hour of grief is the healing presence we need”
“When we have nothing left but faith we discover that faith is enough to sustain everything”
“Solitude is not a private therapeutic place but the place of conversion”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair is the one who shows true compassion”
“The real question is not did you help but did you love and faith is what makes love possible even when helping fails”
“The great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of difficulty by someone who has never faced it without faith”
“Gratitude goes beyond the mine and thine and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift.”
“Nobody escapes being wounded we all are wounded people whether physically emotionally mentally or spiritually”
“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 is worth more than gold.”
“Community is not an ideal to achieve but a gift to receive and faith opens our hands to receive it”
“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts to enter into places of pain and share in brokenness”
“When we have nothing to cling to as our own we can even welcome the unknown”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person means the most to us we often find it is those who instead of giving advice have chosen rather to share our pain”
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