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Speak Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you…
- Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak…
- 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…
- Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is…
- I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and…
- It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will…
- Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' -…
- 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…
- 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…
- The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to…
- I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think…
- When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives…
More Speak Quotes
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. — Jane Austen
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon
- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
- I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak. — Stephen Baldwin
- It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. — Arthur Balfour
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed. — Brigitte Bardot
- Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim