“One of the hardest things we must sometimes do is to be present to another person's pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery.”

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation (1999), pp. 61-63

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American theologian 1939

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