"Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning……" — Henri Nouwen
"Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human."
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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen
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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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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
— George Ade
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the…
— Phillips Brooks
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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it…
— Saul Alinsky
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The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
— Lee Child
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Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.
— Lloyd John Ogilvie
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Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God,…
— Robert D. Hales
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