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Own Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of…
- 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.…
- Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they…
- 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…
- The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own…
- The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known…
- The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and…
- I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but…
- Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
- In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh…
- We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability…
- Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions…
- 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…
- Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss…
- 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…
- When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves…
- Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run…
- We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace…
- When people show you their boundaries ("I can't do this for you") you feel rejected...part of your struggle is to set boundaries to your own…
- Through compassion it is possible to recognize that the craving for love that people feel resides also in our own hearts, that the cruelty the…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov