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Christian Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and…
- The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you…
- Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and…
- Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
- The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
- Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.…
- 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…
- The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and…
- To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need…
- when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his,…
- Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and…
- Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
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- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar