SO GOOD QUOTES

“We speak about the events of the world, but how often do we really change them for the better? We speak about people and their ways, but how often do our words do them or us any good? We speak about our ideas and feelings as if everyone were interested in them, but how often do we really feel understood? We speak a great deal about God and religion, but how often does it bring us or others real insight? Words often leave us with a sense of inner defeat. They can even create a sense of numbness and a feeling of being bogged down in swampy ground.  Often they leave us in a slight depression, or in a fog that clouds the window of our mind.”

—Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers