The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others? — 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
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
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
Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results?… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an… — 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
No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God is faithful to God's promises. Before you die, you will find acceptance and the love you crave. It will not come… — 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
When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be. — 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
In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand. — 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
