Henri Nouwen Quotes about Journey

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The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

Henri Nouwen

Journey, Inward, Deeper

Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.94, Image

I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

Henri Nouwen

Spiritual, Character, Journey

Henri J.M. Nouwen (2016). “The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition: A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight”, p.113, Convergent Books

The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

Henri Nouwen

Heart, Journey, Roots

Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.94, Image

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Henri Nouwen

Love, Teaching, Journey

Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.14, Image

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Henri Nouwen

Spiritual, Struggle, Journey

Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life”, p.266, Hachette UK

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Henri Nouwen

Spiritual, Journey, Spiritual Journey

Henri J. M. Nouwen, Peter K. Weiskel (2006). “Love in a Fearful Land: A Guatemalan Story”

[The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

Henri Nouwen

Spiritual, Book, Journey

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The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

Henri Nouwen

Writing, Journey, Space