I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not. — 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
Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, "You are a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back… — 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
Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or… — 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
People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There are areas I have to work on. I had some questions and some struggles, but it was an enormously important time… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. — 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
To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place… — 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
