"Those who keep speaking about the sun while……" — Henri Nouwen
"Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day."
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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 Cloudy Quotes
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A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings…
— Joseph Addison
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the…
— Kate Chopin
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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is…
— David Fairchild
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Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows…
— Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is…
— Unknown Author
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but…
— Tim Winton
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Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if…
— Paulo Coelho
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If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will…
— Gautama Buddha
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist…
— George Orwell
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a…
— Jane Lynch
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