If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem. — 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
Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend… — 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
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… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!"… — 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
Let's start with Jesus' answer: "Look for the kingdom first and all else will come together." Life is fragmenting, fragmented. I have… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and… — 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… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward… — 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
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
