"The world is evil only when you become…" — Henri Nouwen

"The world is evil only when you become its slave."

— Henri Nouwen

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343 Quotes by Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen has 343 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life…
Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's…
All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy…
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is…
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling…
Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the…
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we…
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your…
Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is…
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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