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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.


Henri Nouwen

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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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HENRI NOUWEN You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...
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HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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HENRI POINCARE To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
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HENRI POINCAR The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
HENRI BERGSON If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, l...
HENRI POINCARE If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.
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HENRI MATISSE I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
HENRI MATISSE Creativity takes courage.
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HENRI MATISSE The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes...
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HENRI MATISSE The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
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HENRI BERGSON Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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HENRI BERGSON The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
HENRI BERGSON Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
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HENRI LEFEBVRE In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
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HENRI MATISSE Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
HENRI QUEUILLE If youth knew; if age could.
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HENRI MATISSE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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HENRI MATISSE Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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HENRI MATISSE It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSON It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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HENRI MATISSE There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
HENRI MATISSE Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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HENRI MATISSE Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
HENRI MATISSE It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc...
HENRI MATISSE Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
HENRI MATISSE A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't ...
HENRI MATISSE When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perce...
HENRI BERGSON Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m...
HENRI POINCARé All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
ROBERT HENRI I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...
HENRI MATISSE Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSON What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subje...
HENRI MATISSE If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we r...
HENRI POINCARE Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
HENRI BERGSON Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
HENRI MATISSE I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol...
HENRI BARBUSSE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to k...
HENRI POINCARE The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam...
HENRI PIRENNE The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...
HENRI POINCARE Work cures everything.
HENRI MATISSE A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of fo...
HENRI POINCARE To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense ...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
HENRI POINCARE Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A great many of those about me would be im...
HENRI PERRIN To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
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