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Living Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a…
- If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is…
- The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can…
- Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect…
- 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…
- Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What…
- 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…
- The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.
- As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each…
- 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…
- Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying…
- You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
- [...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or…
- In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can…
- Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for…
- Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
- ...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That…
- 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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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov