The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their… — 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
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think… — 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
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like… — 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… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in… — 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
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
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
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 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
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going… — 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
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step…To heal is to let the Holy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us… — 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
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
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
Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a… — 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
Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able… — 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
“The spiritual life is a gift. It is a gift of the Holy Spirit, who lifts us up into the kingdom of… — 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
Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change,… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we… — 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
