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Many Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Gratitude as a discipline involves a conscious choice. I can choose to be grateful even when my emotions and feelings are still steeped in hurt…
- We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of…
- There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.
- The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you…
- Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and…
- A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or…
- It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there…
- 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…
- Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs…
- 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…
- Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my…
- Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.
- Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.…
- The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and…
- We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be…
- when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his,…
- the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and…
- Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in…
More Many Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson