God'S Love Quotes by Henri Nouwen

12 God'S Love quotes by Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen often wrote about the quiet, inner side of faith. Across 12 reflections he invites readers to sit with the mystery of God’s love in a gentle, contemplative way.

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

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My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover...…

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When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we…

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It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see…

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“The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of…

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When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one…

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L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people…

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The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love…

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I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it…

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Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you…

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The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence,…

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Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what…

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I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

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Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

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This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits.

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“The more preoccupied we are with security the more visible the force of death becomes, whether in the form of a pistol beside our…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that…

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

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