Henri Nouwen Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Peace, Freedom

• As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Nature, Real, Ocean

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.86, Image

• We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

  Henri Nouwen

  Grateful, Life Is, Property

  "Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community".

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