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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
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Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
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