The best 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.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships. You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

There's something overwhelming about being in raw nature. It's got an aura about it is that is really kind of majestic and spiritual.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.

Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.

I don't think you understand how Australians work. Once we get a hold of a good quality meme, we drive it into the ground until we die. We're all still dropping the old "I pulled a Bradbury" and that happened over 20 years ago.

I really appreciate the positivity and I'm glad I was able to bring some joy into your lives. That's what I hoped. I didn't realise that would also open the door to so much hate which has, frankly, been pretty devastating.

Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you.

Since the day I announced my candidacy, I set out to find a partner who can help unite our nation and move us forward—a fighter for the middle class and patriot who believes in the promise of America. I am here today because I found such a leader: Governor Tim Walz.

Thank you, Kamala Harris, for the trust that you've placed in me. And maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. I couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket - and to help make you the next President of the United States.

While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is "mostly cows and rocks". Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.