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  1. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    birthdays need to be celebrated. i think it is more important to celebrate a birthday than a successful exam or promotion or a victory. because to celebrate a birthday means to say to someone "thank you for being you".
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  2. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    death is not the total dissolution or our identity but the way to its fullest revelation.
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  3. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused my whole attention.
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  4. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.
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  5. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
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  6. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.
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  7. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.
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  8. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being.
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  9. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
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  10. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Here and Now: Living in the

    Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.
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