The spiritual life does not remove us from the world, but leads us deeper into it. —Henri J. M. Nouwen More about this quote Tags: spirituality life depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Henri J. M. Nouwen Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand. —Henri J. M. Nouwen More about this quote Tags: patience present trust taste discipline control waiting live conflict tomorrow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand. —Henri J. M. Nouwen More about this quote Tags: patience present trust taste discipline control waiting live conflict tomorrow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “depth” Here's the thing about broken hearts: You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger. —Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake More about this quote Tags: heart survival depth healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs. —Myrtle Reed More about this quote Tags: happiness depth secret hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: living ethics compassion depth mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richness of love. —Beatrice of Nazareth More about this quote Tags: love vastness spirit depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: knowledge breadth depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here's the thing about broken hearts: You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger. —Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake More about this quote Tags: heart survival depth healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs. —Myrtle Reed More about this quote Tags: happiness depth secret hiding Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: living ethics compassion depth mankind Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And like the fish, swimming in the vast sea and resting in its deeps, and like the bird, boldly mounting high in the sky, so the soul feels its spirit freely moving through the vastness and the depth and the unutterable richness of love. —Beatrice of Nazareth More about this quote Tags: love vastness spirit depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: knowledge breadth depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email