"Joy is the experience of knowing that you……" — Henri Nouwen
"Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved."
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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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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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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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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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