"Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is……" — Henri Nouwen
"Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear."
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
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