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I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.

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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Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
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This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.
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Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
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Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
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To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
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To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.
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That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that.
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People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
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When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.
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We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.
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I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spirit - I would say. It is the Spirit in us who reveals God.
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Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.
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The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into their lives. And I was loved, not because of what s doing but because of who I was.
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Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.
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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.
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Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.
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