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

Other quotes by Henri Nouwen

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

Category:
God
Read Quote

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

Category:
Friendship
Read Quote

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

Category:
God
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Friendship
category

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

Category:
Friendship

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. – Aristotle

Category:
Friendship

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. – Carol Alt

Category:
Friendship

True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Friendship

Random Quotes

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. – Roger Zelazny

Category:
Age

Theres nothing wrong with being shallow as long as youre insightful about it. – Dennis Miller

Category:
funny

Those who own much have much to fear. – Rabindranath Tagore

Category:
Fear

When Demetrie got sick, we knew it was our responsibility to take care of her and pay her medical bills. And we embraced that. But the tricky part is, like so many families in the South, we also expected her to use a separate bathroom, to use separate utensils. – Kathryn Stockett

Category:
Medical