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Very Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware…
- The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a…
- To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,…
- Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming…
- 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…
- Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your…
- This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.
- When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life,…
- When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
- The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and…
- Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they…
- I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.
- 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.…
- Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the…
- One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long…
- Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study,…
- In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without…
- Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying…
- We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be…
- I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I…
More Very Quotes
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong