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People Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a…
- The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a…
- Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What…
- Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is…
- 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…
- This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.
- Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
- 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…
- The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you…
- 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…
- Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they…
- Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called…
- 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…
- Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
- This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return…
- 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…
- Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not…
- Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are…
- 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…
- We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need…
- People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but…
- People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal…
- Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
- Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
- 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…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle