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Toward Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a…
- Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or…
- 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…
- As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of…
- Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It…
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