People Quotes by Henri Nouwen

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

— Henri Nouwen

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

— Henri Nouwen

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your…

— Henri Nouwen

People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.

— Henri Nouwen

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

— Henri Nouwen

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

— Henri Nouwen

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

— Henri Nouwen

Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

— Henri Nouwen

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results?…

— Henri Nouwen

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their…

— Henri Nouwen

The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live…

— Henri Nouwen

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them…

— Henri Nouwen

People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring…

— Henri Nouwen

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage…

— Henri Nouwen

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable…

— Henri Nouwen

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…

— Henri Nouwen

Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some…

— Henri Nouwen

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

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures…

— Henri Nouwen

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a…

— Henri Nouwen

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those…

— Henri Nouwen

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or…

— Henri Nouwen

A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the…

— Henri Nouwen

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people…

— Henri Nouwen

Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity…

— Henri Nouwen

Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs.…

— Henri Nouwen

Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful…

— Henri Nouwen

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

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only…

— Henri Nouwen

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the…

— Henri Nouwen

I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can…

— Henri Nouwen

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from…

— Henri Nouwen

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very…

— Henri Nouwen

I'm learning that the blessing is located in our poor people, in people who are weak; they are the ones we should…

— Henri Nouwen

Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom…

— Henri Nouwen

Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have.…

— Henri Nouwen

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of…

— Henri Nouwen

The most important thing I've come to believe in is that people with mental handicaps have a unique mission to bring God's…

— Henri Nouwen

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who…

— Henri Nouwen

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their…

— Henri Nouwen