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Longer 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…
- 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…
- To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,…
- Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern,…
- Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is…
- I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding…
- People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but…
- Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
- Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
- 'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is…
- The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently…
- 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…
More Longer Quotes
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world… — Isaac Asimov
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader
- You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. — David Bailey
- I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels… — Amy Adams
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense… — Stanley Baldwin
- If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason. — Alan Ball
- Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be… — J. G. Ballard