Henri Nouwen Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

Jill Lepore

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There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

Joan D. Vinge

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The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

Jerry Saltz

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As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

Joe Torre

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When you cast cross-racially, another dimension is added.

Joel Grey

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Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.

John Lothrop Motley

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I think 'Prince Valiant' was the first cartoon I ever did.

Jeff Bennett

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I think I had 'Super Mario' and 'Tetris' around, and that's it.

Ana de Armas

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Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose.

Siri Hustvedt

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Any individual that would be running for office, if they would say something that crosses a line and, in the end, is so significant, so major, that you couldn't support them, I'd have to withdraw support from any individual, okay?

Ron Johnson

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There is no chip coming off of my shoulder because, at the end of the day, you're still going to continue to be doubted.

Draymond Green

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I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

Demetri Martin

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