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
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- Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. – Henri JM Nouwen
- a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ. – Henri JM Nouwen
- The world is evil only when you become its slave. – Henri JM Nouwen
- 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
- In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call. – Henri Nouwen
- In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us. – Henri JM Nouwen
- When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. – Henri JM Nouwen
- 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
- 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
- First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak. – Henri JM Nouwen
- The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion. – Henri JM Nouwen
- Solitude is the furnace in which transformation takes place. – Henri JM Nouwen
- 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
- Concentrate on a single feature -“ as, build all toward one eye -“ make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri) – Robert Henri
- Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile. – Leo Tolstoy
- All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion. – Marcus Aurelius
- Atheists determine there is no God based on their own intellect. I’ve determined there is a God based on His intellect. – William Branks
- People-based service is God-based service – Sunday Adelaja
- Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life. – Debasish Mridha
- A light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never overcome it. – John the Evangelist
- …action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. – Idries Shah
- Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge. – Karen Azinger
- Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based, – Frank Healy
- Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think. – Patrick Lencioni
- A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound. – Michael Vito Tosto
- The reason we haven’t yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians! – Eli Of Kittim
- Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness. – Gudjon Bergmann
- anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate – Richelle Mead
- Actions are based on attitues but behaviours based on character – pavankumar nagaraj
- Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell. – Richie Norton
- We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions. – Chris Hodges
- I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are. – Shailene Woodley
- I’d rather live one year with Love, Peace & Joy, than live 10 years with Worry, Anxiety & Hatred. It is not how long I live but how well I live. – RVM
- To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears. – Nikki Rowe
- I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming. – Human Angels
- All Darkness was one darkness in the end. Of heart or Heavens, one Darkness. – Clive Barker
- There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. – Sarah J Maas
- All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. – Robert Henri
- Don’t Live in the Darkness of Fear, Abandon Fear and Live in Joy! – Darwun St James
- joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms – Mark Matousek