Community Quote by Henri Nouwen Download Open image “I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.” — Henri Nouwen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Feels Solitude
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
God hates loneliness, and community is God's answer to loneliness. When we walk alongside other people, we find a community where we learn how… — Rick Warren 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 know our… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot… — 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 not mutual… — 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 ministry and… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a time for "God and God alone." Who knows what can happpen when we focus only on God. In solitude, we sense… — Sue Monk Kidd 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 also that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Solitude The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings, so that, freed from… — Richard J. Foster 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 that God… — 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
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image