"In true love the smallest distance is too……" — Henri Nouwen
"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen has 343 quotes on this site.
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life…
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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…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is…
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling…
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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…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to…
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If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask…
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There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or…
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There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it,…
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I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have…
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one…
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I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing…
— Carlisle Floyd
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The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one…
— Edward R. Murrow
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The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
— Johan Huizinga
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The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting…
— Fritz Sauckel
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To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced,…
— Radmilla Cody
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All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
— Bernardine Dohrn
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Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the…
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