Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results?… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go. There are so many moments in life when you… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very… — 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
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