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Henri Nouwen Quotes - Page 18

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In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to

In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

Confused, Struggle, People

Source: www.liguorian.org

Today's reading was "if they ask you to walk a mile, walk two. Don't take an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth." You have chances every second to live this Word, but it has to be in you. It can't just be an idea; it has to sink from the mind into the heart.

Reading, Heart, Eye

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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Successful, Church, Corporations

Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.

Prayer, Community, Doe

Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

Self, Perfect, His Love

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

Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to keep going to the margins of our society. The homeless, the starving, parentless children, people with AIDS, our emotionally disturbed brothers and sisters - they require our first attention.

Brother, Children, People

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Prayer, Passionate, Pursuit

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

Letting Go, Wish, Important

Let's start with Jesus' answer: "Look for the kingdom first and all else will come together." Life is fragmenting, fragmented. I have a thousands things to do, others do too. We can live our life as if the main question is, "How can keep it together? How do I juggle all the balls? But the real question is, "How can I stay home - interiorly home - while I do these many things?

Jesus, Real, Home

Source: www.liguorian.org

Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

Jesus, Men, Intimate Relationships

"The Wounded Healer". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1972.

To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Mean, People, Age

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

Struggle, Trying, Helpful

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

Baptism, Church, Body

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Simple, Attention, Should

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.

People, Would Be, Needs

Source: www.liguorian.org

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

Jobs, Writing, Way

Source: archives.wineskins.org

I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.

Christian, Grateful, Writing

Source: archives.wineskins.org

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

Children, Yoga, Mean

Source: archives.wineskins.org

Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear age vast new industrial complexes enable man to produce in one hour that which he labored over for years in the past, but he also realizes that these same industries have disturbed the ecological balance and, through air and noise pollution, have contaminated his own milieu.

Past, Men, Air

Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."

Meals, Tables, Good Family

Source: archives.wineskins.org

In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or "We could use you." He said, "Maybe our community can offer you a home." I visited several times, then resigned from Harvard and went to live with the community for a year. I loved it! I didn't have much to do. I wasn't pastor or anything. I was just a friend of the Community.

Home, Years, Community

Source: www.liguorian.org

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

People, Healthy, Television

Source: archives.wineskins.org

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

Long, Stories, There Is Hope

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Responsibility, Violence, Firsts

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

Blessing, Agony, Stronger

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