Henri Quotes
He made me suddenly realize that photographs could reach eternity through the moment.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."
I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.
Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.
The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.
The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.
The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.