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New Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- 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…
- Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and…
- One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own place.…
- Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things…
- 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…
- Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and…
- The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free…
- 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…
- It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy…
- 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…
- Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new…
- Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not…
- Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new…
- Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in…
- You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
- I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I…
- [Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your…
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- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin