Best Henri Nouwen Qoutes
- Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God… All
- The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is… Beyond
- Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not… Afraid
- People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better… Alone
- Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study,… Alone
- In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without… Become One
- Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing… Blessing
- Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.… Been
- As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm… Affirm
- Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the… Counted
- For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and… Children
- 'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is… Attention
- I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger… Able
- In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather… Aware
- Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new… Appears
- Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who… Air
- Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying… Always Waiting
- Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss… Disconnect
- Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to… Able
- Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in… Anxiety
- The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or… Accomplish
- The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and… Analysis
- The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love,… Acknowledge
- The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently… Able
- The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable… Backward
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