quotations.

"If you keep that in mind, you can deal with an enormous amount of failure without losing your identity because your identity is that you are beloved by God. Long before your father and mother, your brothers and sisters, your teachers, your church, or any people touched you in a loving or a wounding way, long before you were rejected by some or praised by others, the voice of God has been there saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love.  That love was there before you were born and it will be there after you die." Henri Nouwen

"Prayer is the ongoing cry of the incarnate Lord to the loving God. It is eternity in the midst of mortality, it is life among death, hope in the midst of despair, true promise surrounded by lies. Prayer brings love alive among us. So let us pray unceasingly." Henri Nouwen

"The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people from everyday Christian life in community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; for in the poor sister or brother, Christ is knocking at the door." Deitrich Bonhoeffer

"The worst enemy of a political reformer is winning an election." Bruchko

"Before you really understand a people, don't judge." Bruchko

"The most important thing that I can say to those who want to help primitive people is this: they will not be helped very much unless they find purpose in life through Jesus Christ.  Without Him whatever development takes place always will be twisted or corrupted. It will embitter those who try to hold it together, and those who don't care about it will be ruined by apathy and alienation. But with Jesus there can be real change. Not just spiritual change. Not just change by and by. Real change, now, with visible power. He is the source of all change. He is the God of everyday miracles." Bruchko

"Humility means to live as close to the truth as possible: the truth about ourselves, the truth about others, the truth about the world in which we live." Richard Foster

"Many of the cruel things in life spring from the fact that we suffer from illusions." Oswald Chambers

"Unless we can look the darkest, blackest fact full in the face without damaging the character of God, we do not yet know him." Oswald Chambers

"Forgiveness means that this real and horrible offense shall not separate us.  Forgiveness means that we will no longer use the offense to drive a wedge between us, hurting and injuring one another. Forgiveness means that the power of love that holds us together is greater than the power of the offense that separates us. That is forgiveness." Richard Foster