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

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Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. – Pope Benedict XVI

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson

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Im calling my book series the with God series. And this next with God book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of better on this planet. – Neale Donald Walsch

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon

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Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. – Friedrich Schiller

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You have to trust your body to take care of you. – A. J. Langer

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