"Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot……" — Henri Nouwen
"Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community."
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Henri Nouwen
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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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More Communion Quotes
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
— Joyce Brothers
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on…
— William Ames
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In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what…
— Watchman Nee
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
— J. G. Holland
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also…
— Aberjhani
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If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to…
— Oswald Chambers
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on…
— John Owen
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things…
— Oswald Chambers
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