The roots of lonliness find their food in the suspicion that there is no one who cares and offers love without conditions, and no place where we can be vulnerable without been used
-Henri Nouwen
Quote of the week April 30, 2009
“Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.”
-Henri Nouwen
Quote of the week April 1, 2009
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.”
-Henri Nouwen
Quote of the Week March 16, 2009
‘To be a witness means to offer your own faith experience and to make your doubts and hopes, failures and successes, loneliness and woundedness, available to others as a context in which they can struggle with their own humanness and quest for meaning.’
-Henry Nouwen (Spiritual Direction)
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