"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

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Source : "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

Henri Nouwen

#Love Quotes #Friendship Quotes #Pain Quotes

“I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.”
“The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.”
“This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.”
“Jesus’ words are inseparable from his person. He himself is the message he proclaims.”

Source : George Eldon Ladd (1996). “The Presence of the Future: The Eschatology of Biblical Realism”, p.167, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.”
“In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.”
“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.”

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