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Stranger 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…
- Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and…
- 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…
- 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…
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