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Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, You are a beautiful person, you are the beloved of God, don't forget it? That's an important discipline.
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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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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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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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
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