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Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

Name: Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
ISBN: 0877930724

Drawing on three moments in the life of Jesus, Henri Nouwen invites us to reflect on the tension between our desire for solitude and the demands of contemporary life. He reminds us that it was in solitude that Jesus found the courage to follow God's wi

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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of…”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen, amazon.com

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