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Heart Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a…
- True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of…
- 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…
- Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask…
- The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own…
- 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…
- When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds…
- The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
- For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at…
- I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and…
- 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…
- The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In…
- Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and…
- The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
- Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not…
- The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart…
- 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…
- People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better…
- Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing…
- The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and…
- His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but…
- Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling…
- 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.…
- While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the…
- Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — 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
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin