"Life is a gift, not to possess, but…" — Henri Nouwen
"Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share."
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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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More Gift Quotes
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness…
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God…
— Saint Augustine
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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.
— Richard Bach
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm…
— Erykah Badu
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I…
— Erykah Badu
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance…
— Oksana Baiul
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced…
— Javier Bardem
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If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
— Bruce Barton
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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