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Henri Nouwen Quotes about Community

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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

Community, Church, Hunger And Thirst

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

Mean, People, Community

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I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

Community, Solitude, Feels

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Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

Spiritual, Heart, Community

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

Community, Important, Fruit

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

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

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

Christian, Flames, Community

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

If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude.

Order, Community, Solitude

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The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

Loneliness, Giving, Community

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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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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

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

Community, Important, Ministry

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

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

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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.

Struggle, People, Community

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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

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

Jesus, Community, Ministry

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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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By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

Prayer, Community, Wells

I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but a mission. He met me at the Trosly L'Arche community and we spent a few days together . . . I wanted him to get to know L'Arche, to understand what I was doing there. Afterward he said, "I understand now, Henri. You have found a home for your self."

Home, Self, Community

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Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

Community, Want, Weakness

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Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

Hard Times, Time Keeping, Community

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