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Henri Nouwen Quotes about Giving

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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.

Opportunity, Deep Love, Giving

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

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Fate, Giving, Goal

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Love, Real, Giving

Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.81, Image

However, 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. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'

Spiritual, Heart, Giving

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

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

Compassion, Giving, Water

God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.

Giving, Bread, Enough

We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.

Angel, Giving, Joy

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

Lying, Compassion, Giving

The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.

Christian, Giving, Ends

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.72, Image

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

Space, People, Giving

Source: archives.wineskins.org

My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.

Giving, Description, God's Love

"Here and Now: Living in the Spirit". Book by Henri Nouwen, p. 175, 1994.

Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.

Hands, Giving, Want

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

We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be relaxed, to expose ourselves to someone else, and to give unconditionally. It might be very small and hidden, but if this corner exists, it calls for a search through the complexities of our human relationships in order to find it.

Order, Giving, World

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

Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognize the glory of God in me and give it space to manifest itself to me, all that is human can be brought there and nothing will be the same again.

Space, Giving, Strange

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

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

When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.

Giving, Abundance Mentality, Abundance

To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

Blessing, Giving, Affirmation

Henri Nouwen (2013). “Discernment: Reading the signs of daily life”, p.169, SPCK

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

Giving, Bread, Break

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.

Jesus, Blessing, Giving

When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source.

Distance, Ideas, Giving

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

Teacher, People, Giving

Source: archives.wineskins.org

Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

Opportunity, People, Giving

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

Source: archives.wineskins.org

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

Giving, Intimate, Available

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