The greatest trap in our life is not success, popu... -Henri Nouwen

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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

Henri Nouwen , Clergyman
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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 re...
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. Resist...
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God lo...
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God....
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 vulnerabl...
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....
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? Di...
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoc...
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend....
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results....

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is ba...
Heart power is stronger than horsepower....
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a ...
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the li...
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fas...
Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this beco...
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the powe...
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place....
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corpora...
In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating....