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Things Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our…
- Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things…
- Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern,…
- Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...…
- The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
- As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we…
- the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and…
- Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in…
- While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the…
- Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle