My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover...… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
“The more preoccupied we are with security the more visible the force of death becomes, whether in the form of a pistol beside our… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share
