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Henri Nouwen Quotes - Page 17

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Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives

Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people.

Struggle, Men, Thinking

"Bread For the Journey". Book by Henri J. M. Nouwen, 1996.

I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

Real, Broken, People

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Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

Answers, Mystery, Existence

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

Spiritual, Journey, Focus

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It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

Prayer, Silence, Contemplative

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

Community, Essentials, Want

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Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

Community, Solitude, Essentials

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You don't have to run around world proving you're lovable.

Running, World, Lovable

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One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Spiritual, Addresses, Way

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.1, HarperCollins

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

Blessed, Who Cares, Poor

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No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show you God's faithful love.

Hands, Community, Faithful

Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.7, Image

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 which point out the way to a new land.

Life, Prayer, Land

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 to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Men, Needs, Entering

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, 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 world around us and help us discover who we are.

Stories, World, Want

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

Prayer, Thinking, Involved

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

Artist, Soul

...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

Heart, Desire, Looks

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Community, Important, Ministry

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 horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Distance, New Horizons, Way

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.24, Image

Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

Believe, Mean, Risk

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

Kissing, People, World

"Encounters with Merton". Book by Henri Nouwen, September 1, 2004.

You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

Christian, Long, World

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

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

Thinking, Talking, Truth Revealed

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 life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

War, Mean, Resistance

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community”, Edicoes Loyola

The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that is your heart.

Wall, Heart, Rooms

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