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Offers Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a…
- Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
- We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
- 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…
- As long as our restlessness, anxiety, and feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each…
- What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It…
- Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who…
- 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…
- To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
- The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or…
- A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is…
- 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…
More Offers Quotes
- If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment… — Michele Bachmann
- Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution. — Ansel Adams
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not… — Roseanne Barr
- On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer… — William Bartram
- The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the… — William Bartram