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• I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.

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  Niños, Creer, Pensar

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• The spiritual task of life is to feed hope. Hope is not something to be found outside of us. It lies in the spiritual life we cultivate within. The whole purpose of wrestling with life is to be transformed into the self we are meant to become, to step out of the confines of our false securities and allow our creating God to go on creating. In us.

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  Spiritual, Lying, Wrestling

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• There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.

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  Light, Darkness, Important

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• Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face with the world, face to face with the self. And then, of course, something must be done. Nothing stays the same once we have found the God within…. We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child.

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  Children, Heart, Self

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• Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

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  Unlikely, Turns

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• Hospitalidad significa llevar a la gente al espacio que son nuestras vidas y nuestras mentes y nuestros corazones y nuestro trabajo y nuestros esfuerzos. La hospitalidad es la forma en que salimos de nosotros mismos. Es el primer paso para desmantelar las barreras del mundo. La hospitalidad es la manera de dar la vuelta a un mundo lleno de prejuicios, corazón a corazón.

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  Corazón, Medio, Espacio

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• Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

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  Inspiración, Vida, Gratitud

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• The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins.

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  Women, Home, Responsibility

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• Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

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  Hopeful, Waiting, Get Better

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• Es en comunidad donde llegamos a ver a Dios en el otro. Es en comunidad donde vemos llenarse nuestro propio vacío. Es la comunidad la que me llama más allá de los estrechos horizontes de mi propia vida, mi propio país, mi propia raza, y me da los dones que no tengo dentro de mí.

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  Country, Race, Filled Up

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• El secreto de la vida es dejar que cada segmento de ella produzca su propio rendimiento a su propio ritmo. Cada periodo tiene algo nuevo que enseñarnos. La cosecha de la juventud son los logros; la cosecha de la madurez es la perspectiva; la cosecha de la edad es la sabiduría; la cosecha de la vida es la serenidad.

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  Yield, Perspective, Serenity

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• Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move, life itself is a never-ending series of harvests, a different fruit for every time.

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  Moving, Joy, Ease

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• It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing mother. A world that does not preserve the planet, does not know God the creator. A world that does not honor the spirit of compassion, does not know God the spirit. God the lawgiver, God the judge, God the omnipotent being have consumed Western spirituality and, in the end, shriveled its heart.

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  Mother, Heart, Compassion

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• Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

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  Commitment, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it

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  Heart, Rooms

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• La vida no es una carga. La vida no es un problema que haya que resolver. Es una bendición que hay que celebrar.

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  Blessing, Problem, Life Is

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• Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.

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  Becoming, Goodness, Ends

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• We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

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  Practice, Religion, Doe

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• Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.

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  Light, Soul, Roles

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• Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

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  Littles, Too Much, Wonder

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• The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

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  Purpose, Bearable

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• My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed.

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  Space, People, Grace

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• I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

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  Live Life, Holiness, Made

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• Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

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  Grief, Suffering, World

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• Todo lo que hacemos siembra el futuro. Ninguna acción es vacía.

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  Action, Empty, Seeds

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