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Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

~Henri Nouwen

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God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

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Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

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The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

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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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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

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Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

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I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

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Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Clergyman

Born: January 24th, 1932

Died: September 21st, 1996

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