Best quotes by Henri Nouwen on Fear

Checkout quotes by Henri Nouwen on Fear

• ‟ If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

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• ‟ Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

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• ‟ Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

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• ‟ Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

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• ‟ Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

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• ‟ The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

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