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Experience Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the…
- Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware…
- Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can…
- Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the…
- Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and…
- 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…
- Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that…
- The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness…
- Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
- The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to…
- Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
- Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in…
- Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart.…
- Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive…
- ...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…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila