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Henri Nouwen Quotes - Page 9

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Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

Distance, Emotional, Safe

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

Painful, Moments, Joyful

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

Believe, Voice, Listening

Source: www.liguorian.org

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

Spiritual, Prayer, Christ

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.123, Image

If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.

Forgiveness, People, Giving

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

Life, Life Is, Possession

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings Into One Joyful Step”

Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.

Beautiful, Expression, Fundraising

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with him and him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a singleminded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature.

Giving Up, Healing, Grace

"The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen".

When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives in which we are thrown back and forth between the past and the future. If we could just be, for a few minutes each day, fully where we are, we would indeed discover that we are not alone and that the One who is with us wants only one thing: to give us love

Past, Voice, Giving

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, p.20, Hachette UK

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Lonely, Ministry, Ministers

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

Fruit, God Love, Intimate

The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

Church, Moral, Behavior

Source: www.liguorian.org

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

Christian, Self, Leader

"In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1989.

Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests' - the same voice that gave life to the first Adam and spoke to Jesus, the second Adam; the same voice that speaks to all the children of God and sets them free to live in the midst of a dark world while remaining in the light.

Jesus, Children, Home

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.37, Image

We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

Blessed, Eye, People

As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being.

Nature, Real, Ocean

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.86, Image

As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, evaluations, and condemnations. We will remain addicted to putting people and things in their "right" place.

Thinking, Judging People, Long

Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Writing, Community, Solitude

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.13, Image

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

Evil, Causes, Forgotten

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Living Reminder: Service and Prayer in Memory of Jesus Christ”, p.17, HarperCollins

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Running, Enemy, Doe

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.18, Image

Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Friendship, Pain, True Friend

Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

Waiting, Periods

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Real, Mean, Joy

Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

Without Pentecost the Christ-event - the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus - remains imprisoned in history as something to remember, think about and reflect on. The Spirit of Jesus comes to dwell within us, so that we can become living Christs here and now.

Spiritual, Jesus, Thinking

Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.

Spiritual, Jesus, Mean

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