Henri Nouwen Quotes

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

Henri Nouwen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: January 24, 1932 - September 21, 1996

Topics

GodPeopleBeing DifferentAttention

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

John Fletcher

TodayTomorrowYouDrinkSorrow

Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?

John Landgraf

MeYearMoreBeingThanEver

Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.

Jean-Michel Jarre

WorkFutureMusicSupportPeople

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

Tom Douglas

LifeDayMy LifeEvery DayMentoring

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

Roger Federer

CharacterMyselfI AmMeSometimes

Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.

Martine Syms

MyselfGrowing UpLookGrowingStudy

I've colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it's going to do! I went blonde and lost all my baby hairs. I'm not coloring it anymore. Never again.

Michelle Phan

BabyHairBlondeYouNobodyLost

When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.

Condoleezza Rice

VisionPeopleResolutionViolence

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Arthur Erickson

ProfitMantraLineBottomExpression

As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.

Alice McDermott

CharacterEyesServiceYourselfYou

I think if you just made a film that says, 'This is anti-war,' and you had to spend two hours explaining that... you don't like war? Wow, that's original. Know what I mean?

Pilou Asbaek

WarThinkYouKnowMeanTwo

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Paul Valery

BestPurposeKnowPsychologyThings

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