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Henri Nouwen Quotes - Page 15

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Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.

Christian, Men, Space

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.65, Image

Ministry is a very confronting service. It does not allow people to live with illusions of immortality and wholeness. It keeps reminding others that they are mortal and broken, but also that with the recognition of this condition, liberation starts.

People, Broken, Doe

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.93, Image

Community is where humility and glory touch.

Humility, Community, Glory

Henri J. M. Nouwen, John S. Mogabgab (2012). “A Spirituality of Living: The Henri Nouwen Spirituality Series”, p.20, Upper Room Books

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Land, House, Leaving

The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love.

Discovery, Choices, Desire

That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

Sisterhood, Space, Fearless

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.64, Image

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

Patience, Live In The Moment, Taste

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.5, Harper Collins

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus?

Christian, Jesus, Prayer

The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Father, Son, Challenges

Source: www.liguorian.org

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

Jesus, Mean, Commitment

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Rebel, Hardship

Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.

Growth, Age, Doe

Henri J. M. Nouwen (1976). “Aging”, Image

I feel the problems I have are meant to purify me.

Problem, Feels

Source: www.liguorian.org

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with God.

Prayer, Thinking, Differences

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Prayer, Real, Voice

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Life of the Beloved”, Hachette UK

In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.

Solitude, Usefulness

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.19, Harper Collins

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Profound, Solitude, Emergencies

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.12, Image

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.

Discipline, Silence, Temptation

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.27, HarperCollins

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Silence, Distance Friendship, Inspirational Long Distance Relationship

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2010). “Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit”, p.21, Harper Collins

...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give.

Brother, Night, Light

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

Inspirational, Religious, Judging

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 rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Running, Reality, Trying

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.

Keys, Kingdoms, Heirs

Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

Teacher, Communication, Teaching

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Mean, Waiting, Want

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