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First 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…
- 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...…
- Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for…
- 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…
- Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can…
- Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' -…
- Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.
- Peace is first of all the art of being.
- 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…
- We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace…
- Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and…
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