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
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 don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while… — 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
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
There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and… — 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
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
When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives… — 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
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
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
