Quote by Henri Nouwen
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or con

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

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen

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Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. – Henri Nouwen

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God
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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. – Henri Nouwen

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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. – Charles de Lint

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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. – Dag Hammarskjold

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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama

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A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. – Pam Brown

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Some mornings, its just not worth chewing through the leather straps. – Emo Philips

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Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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The half is greater than the whole. – Hesiod

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