"When you recognize the festive and the still……" — Henri Nouwen
"When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live."
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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 Festive Quotes
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one of 42 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
— Roseanne Barr
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Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you…
— Rajneesh
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
— John Donne
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I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on…
— Margaret Fuller
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When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."
— Sharon Gless
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If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive
— Thom Yorke
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If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make…
— Howard W. Hunter
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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second…
— Plato
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Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar…
— Lottie Moon
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Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up…
— Mimi Sheraton
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Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just…
— Rajneesh
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So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a…
— Rajneesh
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