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Immense Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by…
- The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness…
- The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
More Immense Quotes
- The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
- There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow
- The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to… — Steve Buyer
- Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
- Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that… — Nick Cave
- Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human… — Kofi Annan
- I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that… — Bernard Moitessier
- Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham
- The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income… — Peter Kropotkin
- The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — Joseph de Maistre
- What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy
- This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson