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Up Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- ...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until…
- Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the…
- Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and…
- I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but…
- Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
- A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me.…
- 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…
- Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new…
- Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the…
- Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss…
- We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace…
- Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart.…
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