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Friend Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- 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…
- The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief…
- If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of…
- While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that…
- A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is…
- Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer…
- Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to…
- The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact,…
- A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who…
More Friend Quotes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. — Saint Augustine
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. — Richard Bach
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn,… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou