Henri Nouwen Quotes About Spirituality
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The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
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Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
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The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
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When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.
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