"Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own……" — Henri Nouwen
"Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through."
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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 Disconnect Quotes
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One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy,…
— Nick Clegg
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The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That`s how maturity comes. Just watch all…
— Rajneesh
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I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but…
— Gregory Crewdson
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I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create.…
— Robert Fritz
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Sir, if you don't pay this bill by the close of business on Friday; we will be forced to disconnect…
— Jon Jones
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Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change…
— Brad Feld
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The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious…
— Rosemary M. Wixom
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The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.
— Marshall Faulk
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We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory…
— David Platt
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