“When we live with hope we do not get tangled up with concerns for how our wishes will be fulfilled. So, too,… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“I encourage you to make a similar commitment to spending time alone with God each day for prayer and meditation. Biblical meditation… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Prayer is standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart; that is, at that point of our being… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“In the midst of a turbulent, often chaotic, life we are called to reach out, with courageous honesty to our innermost self,… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“I am called to enter into the inner sanctuary of my own being where God has chosen to dwell. The only way… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Prayer helps us overcome the fear that is related to building our life just on the interpersonal—“What does he or she think… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“From the heart arise unknowable impulses as well as conscious feelings, moods, and wishes. The heart, too, has its reasons and is… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When we say to people, 'I will pray for you,' we make a very important commitment. The sad thing is that this… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Why should a man marry and have children, study and build a career; why should he invent new techniques, build new institutions, and develop… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that the Gospel proved useful for my many worries but that the Gospel proved the uselessness of my worries and so refocused… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Christians should put survival of the planet ahead of national security...Here is the mystery of our global responsibility: that we are in communion with… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“We want to live as people chosen, blessed, and broken, and thus become food for the world.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Those who really can receive bread from a stranger and smile in gratitude, can feed many without even realizing it. Those who can sit… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When God makes a covenant with us, God says: 'I will love you with an everlasting love. I will be faithful to you, even… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Am I afraid to die? I am every time I let myself be seduced by the noisy voices of my world telling me that… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
