"Jesus didn't 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
GodView Quote
"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
posted in Friendship
Other Quotes by Henri Nouwen
Discover more inspiring quotes by Henri Nouwen
"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
FriendshipView Quote
"In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel."
-Henri Nouwen
GodView Quote
"Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community."
-Henri Nouwen
GodView Quote
"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
BestView Quote
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
LifeView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
FriendshipView Quote
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
FriendshipView Quote
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
-Marlene Dietrich
FriendshipView Quote
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
FriendshipView Quote
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-Henry David Thoreau
FriendshipView Quote
"Love is like the wild rose-briar Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"
-Emily Bronte
FriendshipView Quote