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Fully Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- 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…
- Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and…
- We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have…
- I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but…
- Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present…
- That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be…
- When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps…
- Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not…
- The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to…
- We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of…
- When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives…
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- I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending… — Michele Bachmann
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
- Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous,… — Alan Ball
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead. — Martha Beck
- What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man… — Alexander Graham Bell