Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible. — 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
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive. — 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
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of… — 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
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we… — 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
If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“In solitude we can come to the realization that we are not driven together but brought together. In solitude we come to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but… — 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
