"The friend who can be silent with us……" — Henri Nouwen
"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."
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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 Bereavement Quotes
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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just…
— Julie Burchill
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Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your…
— Saul Alinsky
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more…
— James Martineau
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which…
— William Ralph Inge
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It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is…
— Anthony Storr
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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you.…
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
— James Martineau
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All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
— Debbie Ford
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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of…
— C.S. Lewis
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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory…
— Abraham Lincoln
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