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Henri Nouwen Quotes - Page 19

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Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.

Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.

Struggle, People, Community

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Jesus didn't live alone. He had Peter, John, and James around him. There were the Twelve and the other disciples. They formed circles of intimacy around Jesus. We too need these circles of intimacy, but it's a discipline.

Jesus, Circles, Discipline

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For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

Spiritual, Want, University

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In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.

Dream, Loneliness, Dark

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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Identity, Occupation, Way

"The Essential Henri Nouwen" by Henri Nouwen, (p. 152), 2009.

In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.

Pain, Blood, Hands

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

Hypocrisy, Community, Inability

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

Book, Writing, Son

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Jesus said Communion first, community comes out of that, and out of community, ministry.

Jesus, Community, Ministry

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While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

Clouds, One Day, Sun

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

Writing, Inspire, Letters

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I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

Morning, Blessed, Meditation

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I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

Community, Want, Students

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The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

Irrelevance, Leader, World

When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged.

Teaching, Home, Feels

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Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

Powerful, Anxiety, Despair

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

Home, Waiting, Want

I had a deep experience of God's love for me.

God's Love

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By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

Prayer, Community, Wells

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Intimate Relationships, Intimate Relationship With God, Dare

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

That's prayer to let God's Word speak deep within you and tell you, "You are my beloved. You don't have to take an eye for an eye. No, no you're too rich for that."

Letting Go, Prayer, Eye

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One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.

Beautiful, Writing, Treasure

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

Giving, Intimate, Available

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

Artist, Air, People

"The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

Special People, People, Special

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