Quotes about Author
A shriveled humanity has a shrunken capacity for receiving the rays of God's love.
— Brennan Manning
The harlots who have no imagined righteousness to protect will be dancing into the Kingdom while you have your alleged virtue burned out of you!
— Brennan Manning
Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.
— Henri Nouwen
Death is not the total dissolution or our identity but the way to its fullest revelation.
— Henri Nouwen
God is a God who wants to lead us closer to the full realization of our lionhearted humanity, if you will.
— Henri Nouwen
The great mystery is not the cures, but the infinite compassion which is their source.
— Henri Nouwen
It seems indeed that the Church today is one of the few institutions in the world willing to defend human rights regardless of who the oppressor is.
— Henri Nouwen
We are all poor in respect to a thousand savage comforts, though surrounded by luxuries...for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
— Henry David Thoreau
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.
— Henry David Thoreau