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Henri Nouwen Quotes - Page 13

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Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Laughter, Worry, Joy

I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spirit - I would say. It is the Spirit in us who reveals God.

Jesus, Believe, Heart

Source: archives.wineskins.org

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. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Christian, Intimate Relationships, People

There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in the morning he came down from the mountain and called his twelve apostles around him. In the afternoon he went out on the plain with them to preach the Good News and heal the sick. He had communion with God first, then he had community, and then he went out to do the work of God. That's the order of things.

Jesus, Morning, Night

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The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Suffering, Tragedy, Want

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?

Heart, World

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His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.

Heart, Two, Tasks

The great #‎ conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

Jesus, Moving, World

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.125, Image

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 spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Spiritual, Mean, Space

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 the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination.

Determination, Giving Up, Self

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

Moving, Moral, Mystical

Source: www.liguorian.org

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Real, Problem

God is your safety and your home. You are well embraced." Start living the multi-formity of life from this place. If you can hold on to that, it all becomes one.

Home, Safety, Wells

Source: www.liguorian.org

People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me.

Book, People, Challenges

Source: archives.wineskins.org

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 want to live them.

Stories, May, Want

There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.

Important, Quality, Meals

Source: archives.wineskins.org

Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.

Baptism, Needs, Taste

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When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source.

Distance, Ideas, Giving

The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.

Spiritual, Self, Life Is

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.15, Image

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

Live For Others, Want, Wells

Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.67, Image

When we approach fundraising in a spirit of gratitude, our confidence in our mission does not depend on how the person we are with responds to our request! We are free to remain secure in God's love with our hearts set joyfully on the kingdom.

Gratitude, Heart, Fundraising

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Prayer, Heart, Focus

Source: www.liguorian.org

Emit gratitude as though it was done

Gratitude, Done

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Spiritual, Space, Discipline

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Lent and Easter Wisdom from Henri J. M. Nouwen: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together with Nouwen's Own Words”

The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

Men, Order, Waiting

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