Henri Nouwen Quotes
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Henri Nouwen
Dutch priest
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