Quotes about Space
All that we have and are is one of the unique and never-to-be-repeated ways God has chosen to express himself in space and time.
- Brennan Manning
Experience tells us that we can only love because we are born out of love, that we can only give because our life is a gift, and that we can only make others free because we are set free by Him whose heart is greater than ours. When we have found the anchor places for our lives in our own center, we can be free to let others enter into the space created for them and allow them to dance their own dance, sing their own song and speak their own language without fear.
- Henri Nouwen
Thus, discipline is the creation of boundaries that keep time and space open for God. Solitude requires discipline, worship requires discipline, caring for others requires discipline. They all ask us to set apart a time and a place where God's gracious presence can be acknowledged and responded to.
- Henri Nouwen
Community as discipline is the effort to create a free and empty space among people where together we can practice true obedience.
- Henri Nouwen
By slowly converting our loneliness into a deep solitude, we create that precious space where we can discover the voice telling us about our inner necessity—that is, our vocation.
- Henri Nouwen
When we look at teaching in terms of hospitality, we can say that the teacher is called upon to create for his students a free and fearless space where mental and emotional development can take place.
- Henri Nouwen
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.
- Henri Nouwen
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.
- Stephen Hawking
You have to make a space in your heart, in your mind and in your life itself for authentic human connection.
- Marianne Williamson
I think what I'd love to see... I love muscular projects. I love the world of... I've worked in the action space quite a bit.
- Kari Skogland
The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space and also the word belong, so that in its full richness to long suggests to yearn for a long time for something that is a long way off and something that we feel we belong to and that belongs to us. The longing for home is so universal a form of longing that there is even a special word for it, which is of course homesickness.
- Frederick Buechner