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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.
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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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking he's always doing something.
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It is precisely when you are loved a lot that you might realize a second loneliness which is not to be solved but lived. This second loneliness is an existential loneliness that belongs to the basis of our being. It's where we are unfulfilled because only God can fill us.
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Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
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Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
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The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
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We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
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