Loneliness Quote by Henri Nouwen Download Open image “Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.” — Henri Nouwen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loneliness Lonely Many Ministers Ministry Us
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Ministry need not be an office; it's a lifestyle devoted to attracting the lost to Christ and encouraging other believers in the faith. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be… — John Piper Copy Share Image
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I've also found thousands that have reached out to me in a way that maybe they never did. And it's broadened the ministry in… — Paula White Copy Share Image
“The people who are most vulnerable to overextending themselves on behalf of ministry relationships are people who struggle with intimacy—both with God and others.… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge. I listen… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The more preoccupied we are with security the more visible the force of death becomes, whether in the form of a pistol beside our… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't let 'being single' make you feel like a loner. Its better to be alone. Relationships arent cures for loneliness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
