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Most Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger…
- You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold…
- One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us…
- 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…
- In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.
- Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest…
- 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…
- The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to…
- Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the…
- One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long…
- 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…
- Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
- To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
- One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity…
- 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.…
- I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger…
- 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…
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of…
- Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to…
- One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.
- Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and…
- 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…
- When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster