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Words 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.
- Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my…
- Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
- One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that…
- The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to…
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- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila