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Henri Nouwen has 347 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.
— Johnny Cash
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away…
— Olivier Clement
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We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on…
— Al Gore
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When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles…
— Bernard Parmegiani
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If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.
— Bill Maher
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I don't want to be shut out from the truth. If they ban books, they might as well lock us away from…
— Unknown Author
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Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from him.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is…
— John Donne
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The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that…
— Edith Hamilton
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