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Quote by Henri Nouwen
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if

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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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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Friendship
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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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Friendship
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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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God
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. – Malcolm de Chazal

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God

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. – Arthur Young

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God

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to Gods will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. – Maya Angelou

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God

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? – Robert Kennedy

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God

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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewi

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Age

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year. – David Friedman

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Christmas

I dont think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you aint desperate at some point, you aint interesting. – Jim Carrey

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Learning

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Trust