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Called Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own…
- It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
- Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...…
- The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the…
- Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called…
- We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability…
- The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.
- The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or…
- Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for…
- We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in…
- ...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That…
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- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to… — Teresa of Avila
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila