Henri Quotes

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

A happy life is a life for others.

I had a deep experience of God's love for me.

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

Photography is simultaneously and instantaneously the recognition of a fact and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that express and signify that fact

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

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.

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

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.

I like to discover new things and I'm always testing new apps.

The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.

We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

You haven't beaten me. You have sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.

The wise person questions himself, the fool others.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.