God Quotes by Henri Nouwen

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

— Henri Nouwen

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

— Henri Nouwen

I had a deep experience of God's love for me.

— Henri Nouwen

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

— Henri Nouwen

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

— 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

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

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

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of…

— 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

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

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

— Henri Nouwen

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

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly…

— Henri Nouwen

The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any…

— Henri Nouwen

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to…

— Henri Nouwen

Somehow, somewhere, I know that God loves me, even though I do not feel that love as I can feel a human…

— Henri Nouwen

The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through…

— Henri Nouwen

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a…

— Henri Nouwen

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

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

People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other…

— Henri Nouwen

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

— Henri Nouwen

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

— Henri Nouwen

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

— Henri Nouwen

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

— 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

Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all…

— Henri Nouwen

The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to…

— Henri Nouwen

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer…

— Henri Nouwen