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Each individual human being can claim the spirit of jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. in that spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same spirit that inspired jesus is inspiring us.
-Henri Nouwen
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Each Individual Human Being Can Claim The

Henri Nouwen
Each individual human being can claim the spirit of jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. in that spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same spirit that inspired jesus is inspiring us.
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I am inspired by thinkers. i am inspired by rebellion. i am inspired by children. i have been inspired by love. i have been inspired by heartbreak. i try to take everything that comes at me in life. there have been times in my life that i didn't handle things... right. but even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.
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Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.
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To follow jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. to follow jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from jesus, formed by the influence of jesus. to follow jesus means that we can't separate what jesus is saying from what jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. to follow jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (the way of jesus, eugene h. peterson, 22).
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... he didn't know how to say good-bye. his throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “i don't want to leave you,” he said humbly, reaching for her cold, stiff hands. emma lowered her head, her tears falling freely. “i'll never see you again, will i?” he shook his head. “not in this lifetime,” he said hoarsely. she pulled her hands away and wrapped her arms around his neck. he felt her wet lashes brush his cheek. “then i'll wait a hundred years,” she whispered. “or a thousand, if i must. remember that, nikki. i'll be waiting for you to come to me.
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