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Henri Inspirational Quotes (1244)

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Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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I am working on three things: on being a prayerful person on staying close to the handicapped and on my writing. These are my constant concerns.
Henri Nouwen
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Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
Henri Matisse
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For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.
Henri Nouwen
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.
Henri Nouwen
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You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.
Henrietta Mears
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the real work of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.
Henri Nouwen
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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
John Henrik Clarke
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It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
Henri Nouwen
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.
John Henrik Clarke
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After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Henri Matisse
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Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
Henrik Ibsen
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Hope is only the love of life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
Henri Nouwen
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Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.
Henri Nouwen
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Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
John Henrik Clarke
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You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
Henri Michaux
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I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.
John Henrik Clarke
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There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.
Lance Henriksen
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Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.
Bernard-Henri Levy
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Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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