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FindCenterThe movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can’t, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.

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Nadia Bolz-Weber
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FindCenterWe want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God’s presence.

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Nadia Bolz-Weber
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FindCenterIt has been my experience that what makes us the saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.

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Nadia Bolz-Weber
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FindCenterGod desires for us to be the persons we were created to be: to be simply and purely ourselves, and in this state to love God and to let ourselves be loved by God. It is a double journey, really: finding God means allowing ourselves to be found by God.

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James Martin
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FindCenterAll of us need to leave things behind in order to follow God. For some of us, it is addictive patterns of behavior, for others an overweening emphasis on our own success, for others the adulation of the crowd.

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James Martin
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FindCenterGetting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don’t even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.

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Nadia Bolz-Weber
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