Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives… — 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
Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that… — 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
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
We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Where is peace to be found? The answer is surprising but clear. In weakness. Why there? Because in our weakness, our familiar… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
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 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
The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to… — 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
The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer… — 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
I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as… — 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
