Jan Hoving
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"You are the Beloved, and your dignity comes not from what you do or what others say about you, but from being unconditionally loved by God." — Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World.
That boy seems to appreciate a good glass of beer. Wienerwald, Austria, 1954.

“The greatest spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God, that I can be free in the world—free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized; free to love even when my love is not returned.” — Sabbatical…
“Patience requires us to go beyond the choice between fleeing or fighting. It is the third and the most difficult way. It calls for discipline because it goes against the grain of our impulses. Patience involves staying with it, living it through, listening carefully to what…