Henri Nouwen Short Quotes

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God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

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If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

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

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

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

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Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

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

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Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

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People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

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The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

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The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.

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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

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When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

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I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

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O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones.
Let me find you again. Amen.

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Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

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Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence — priceless and irreplaceable.

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Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

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The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

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Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

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

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The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

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Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

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

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Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

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From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

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

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