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Means Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a…
- Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It…
- Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
- To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new…
- Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition…
- Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present…
- Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
- Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love life means to…
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of…
- Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the…
- As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm…
- Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the…
- To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness…
- A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the…
- Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the…
- Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges…
- 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…
- Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to…
- Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but…
- Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too,…
- ...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
More Means Quotes
- 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 hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange