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
Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real… — 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
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too." — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say to God: 'I love you, too.' — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Life is precious. Not because it is unchangeable, like a diamond, but because it is vulnerable, like a little bird. To love… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by… — 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
