If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. ✨ Hen…

Henri Nouwen
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If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. ✨ Henri Nouwen (2013). Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective, p.23, Image
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