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Tasks Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from…
- Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is…
- We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have…
- 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…
- One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that…
- 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…
- His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but…
- 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…
More Tasks Quotes
- Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if… — Marcus Aurelius
- We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women. — Michelle Bachelet
- You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks. — Michelle Bachelet
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay
- Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the… — Jack Adams
- It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that… — Karl Barth
- To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
- We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the… — Ed Begley, Jr.
- The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world -… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it. — Ezra Taft Benson