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World 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…
- In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they're never…
- 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…
- We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have…
- The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love with Jesus? In…
- Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and…
- Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
- Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called…
- God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at…
- Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' -…
- The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.
- It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there…
- 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.…
- People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but…
- 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…
- Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God…
- The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or…
- The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...
- 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…
- I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think…
- 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…
- The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
- 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…
- In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- 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
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach