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Waiting Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- 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…
- The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free…
- Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
- Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present…
- Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
- This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return…
- Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
- 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…
- A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the…
- Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
- [...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or…
More Waiting Quotes
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car. — Tallulah Bankhead
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to… — David Bailey
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone… — Christian Bale
- My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet. — Tyra Banks
- So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. — John Perry Barlow
- The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry