Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts… — 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
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
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only… — 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
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
Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many… — 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
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
Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the… — 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
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of… — 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
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It is freeing to become aware that we do not have to be victims of our past and can learn new ways… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I'm learning that the blessing is located in our poor people, in people who are weak; they are the ones we should… — 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
