Category: preacher
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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.
Henri Nouwen
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We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton
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We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.
Charles Spurgeon
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When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton
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The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.
Charles Spurgeon
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In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
Henri Nouwen
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Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.
Charles Spurgeon