Knows Quotes by Henri Nouwen

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

— Henri Nouwen

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

— Henri Nouwen

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Henri Nouwen

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves…

— Henri Nouwen

I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge…

— Henri Nouwen

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and…

— Henri Nouwen

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know…

— Henri Nouwen

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before…

— Henri Nouwen

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

— 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

It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but…

— Henri Nouwen

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

The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make…

— Henri Nouwen

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or…

— Henri Nouwen

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures…

— Henri Nouwen

When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have…

— Henri Nouwen

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know…

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Henri Nouwen

The Question is not how much are you going to accomplish? Or can you show some results? But are you in love…

— Henri Nouwen

Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…

— Henri Nouwen

All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…

— Henri Nouwen

I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but…

— Henri Nouwen

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

— Henri Nouwen

If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!"…

— Henri Nouwen