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Beyond Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or…
- Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things…
- 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,…
- No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond…
- Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It…
- The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims…
- It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there…
- 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…
- Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new…
- The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to…
- I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I…
- Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought…
More Beyond Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon
- In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief. — Christian Bale
- There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it… — Christian Bale
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find… — Roseanne Barr
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer