Quote by Henri Nouwen
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the

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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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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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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During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. – Paul Getty

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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. – Jonathan Edwards

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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. – Cornelia Otis Skinner

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