Best Henri Nouwen Thoughts
- Life is a gift to be grateful for and not a property to cling to. Cling
- The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness… Appear
- Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable… Action
- Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human. Dawn
- Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share. Gift
- The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God. Fellow
- The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God. Belonging
- Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others Every Time
- The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others. All
- The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your… Advent
- Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life. Attention
- Which questions guide our lives? Which questions do we make our own? Which questions deserve our undivided and full personal commitment? Finding the right questions… Answers
- Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves. Find
- We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will… Better
- The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom,… Behind
- By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others. Available
- Community is where humility and glory touch. Community
- Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love. Dare
- This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return… Eager
- It is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there… Belived
- A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me.… All
- Of one thing I am sure. Complaining is self-perpetuating and counterproductive. Whenever I express my complaints in the hope of evoking pity and receiving the… Complainer
- Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into… Care
- Jesus does not respond to our worry-filled way of living by saying that we should not be so busy with worldly affairs. He does not… Activities
- Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs… Breath
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