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Before Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before,…
- The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness…
- People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but…
- The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is…
- In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather…
- Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who…
- If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you…
- God is faithful to God's promises. Before you die, you will find acceptance and the love you crave. It will not come in the way…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood