Nadia Bolz-Weber is an American theologian, New York Times bestselling author, and Lutheran minister. She served for ten years as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado.
CLEAR ALL
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’
Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.