"Solitude is the furnace of transformation." — Henri Nouwen
"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."
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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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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into…
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It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he…
— Robert Benchley
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into…
— Anne Bradstreet
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The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more…
— Charles Spurgeon
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As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
— Charles Spurgeon
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If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no…
— Howard W. Hunter
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I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of…
— Samuel Johnson
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold…
— Rumi
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace…
— Peter Chrysologus
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Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast…
— Catherine of Genoa
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O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be…
— Therese of Lisieux
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