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Desert Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and…
- Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by…
- The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
- To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle…
- Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
- It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run…
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