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Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Community, then, cannot grow out of loneliness, but comes when the person who begins to recognize his or her belovedness greets the belovedness of the other. The God alive in me greets the God resident in you. When people can cease having to be for us everything, we can accept the fact they may still have a gift for us. They are partial reflections of the great love of God, but reflections nevertheless. We see that gift precisely and only once we give up requiring that person to be everything, to be God. We see him or her as a limited expression of an unlimited love.”

Henri J.M. Nouwen, Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times
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Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times by Henri J.M. Nouwen
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