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Page 1 of 1Henri Nouwen
January 24, 1932 - October 2, 1996
Nationality: Dutch
Category: Clergyman
|  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. | | Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. | | 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. | | Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. |
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