5:39am “Sometimes it seems as if we do everything possible to avoid the painful confrontation with our basic human loneliness, and allow ourselves to be trapped by false gods promising immediate satisfaction and quick relief.” The Wounded Healer, Nouwen pg 84
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Nouwen quote: leadership
“Nobody can offer leadership to anyone unless he makes his presence known- that is, unless he steps forward out of the anonymity and apathy of his milieu and makes the possibility of fellowship visible.” Nouwen, The Wounded Healer, pg 65
Isolation quote
“Isolation is among the worst of human sufferings…” The Wounded Healer, Nouwen, pg 60
“Death may be hell, but life no less.” The Wounded Healer, Nouwen, pg 60
Nouwen quote preaching
6:20am Sunday “…preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community so that those who listen can say: “You say what I suspected, you express what I vaguely felt, you bring to the fore what I fearfully kept in the back of my mind. Yes, yes- you say who we are, you recognize our condition…””
Henri J. M. Nouwen, the wounded healer, pg 39
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