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The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.
– Henri JM Nouwen

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  3. Solitude is the furnace in which transformation takes place. – Henri JM Nouwen
  4. Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now. – Henri JM Nouwen
  5. Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. – Henri JM Nouwen
  6. Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world. – Henri JM Nouwen
  7. When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. – Henri JM Nouwen
  8. a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ. – Henri JM Nouwen
  9. Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go. – Henri JM Nouwen
  10. Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart. – Henri JM Nouwen
  11. First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak. – Henri JM Nouwen
  12. The world is evil only when you become its slave. – Henri JM Nouwen
  13. A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity. – Henri JM Nouwen
  14. Concentrate on a single feature -“ as, build all toward one eye -“ make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri) – Robert Henri
  15. It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling. – Dale Carnegie
  16. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. – Idries Shah
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  18. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. – Rollo May
  19. I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies – Johannes Kepler
  20. — So this is the measure of your God’s Mercy.– No. This is the measure of Pharaoh’s soul. – The NT Translation Moses
  21. We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  22. The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure. – Dan Brown
  23. You can measure the true strength of a man by how well he controls others, but you measure his true power by how well he controls himself – Amari Soul
  24. The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something. – Eric Maisel
  25. To measure the man, measure his heart. – Malcolm Forbes
  26. The measure of love is to love without measure. – attributed to Saint Augustine
  27. Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time. – Sunday Adelaja
  28. It’s possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past. – Adolf Hitler
  29. He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion. – Dag Hammarskjld
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  37. Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  38. Your worship is proportional to your communion with God and how you are free with Him. – Paul Gitwaza
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  40. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton

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