"In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel."
-Henri Nouwen
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"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.“
-Henri Nouwen
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"Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community."
-Henri Nouwen
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"Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself."
-Henri Nouwen
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
-Henri Nouwen
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"How sweet it is!"
-Jackie Gleason
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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-Bill Berry
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"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."
-Tony Garza
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"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
-Eleanor Robson Belmont
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"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
-Fawn M. Brodie
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"The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time."
-Galina Vishnevskaya
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"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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