Henri Nouwen Quotes

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Henri Nouwen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.

Jim Carroll

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Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.

John Bytheway

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The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the world's great rainforests is actually very simple: just put a fair price on the role they play in providing a quarter of the world's oxygen, a fifth of fresh water, and 60 percent of its species.

Johan Eliasch

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When you have a democratically elected president of Iran you don't topple him for the Shah. You don't help topple Arbenz in Guatemala. You don't do what we did in Vietnam, etc.

Matt Gonzalez

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I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Robert Englund

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Abortion is the ultimate violence.

Robert Casey

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It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.

Ron Wyden

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My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Lou Holtz

LifePoliticsWifeMeBetterRumors

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

Jason Ritter

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I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

Cliff Martinez

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To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

William H. McRaven

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I've known where my heritage is from all along.

Susana Martinez

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