Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have.… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we… — 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
The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to… — 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
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
People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God is your safety and your home. You are well embraced." Start living the multi-formity of life from this place. If you… — 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
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out… — 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
Somehow, somewhere, I know that God loves me, even though I do not feel that love as I can feel a human… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God is faithful to God's promises. Before you die, you will find acceptance and the love you crave. It will not come… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
