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Powerless Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition…
- Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable…
- Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing…
- 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…
- To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness…
- Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges…
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- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Excessive fear is always powerless. — Aeschylus
- I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless… — Jo Brand
- If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. — Helena Bonham Carter
- Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. — Eric Clapton
- To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos
- When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will… — Thomas Jefferson
- It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save… — Gerard De Nerval
- The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the — Roy Barnes
- When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is… — Herophilos
- Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it… — John Legend
- I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson