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Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen
Dutch Clergyman
Born: Jan 24, 1932
Died: Sep 21, 1996
Fear God Life Love People You
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Charles Spurgeon Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Pope Francis Thich Nhat Hanh
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. Henri Nouwen
Positive Life Love Today Smile Anger Peace Trust Healing Words World Will Face Say Bit Must Someone Bear Come Real Go Questions Offer Did Forgive Sow Fruits Little Little Bit Many Resentment Let Go Now Bring Here
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. Henri Nouwen
Friendship Grief Healing Confusion Not Knowing Despair Cares Bereavement Stay Silent Hour Knowing Friend Curing Us Moment Who Tolerate Who Cares
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. Henri Nouwen
Day Welcome Celebrate Humanity Joy Will Our See More Only Open Shared Feel New Sorrow New Friends Surprise Hear New Place Friends Expect Hearts Afraid Where Holds Whether Place Us Fully Each Each Day Receive
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. Henri Nouwen
Friendship Giving Advice Pain Honestly Our Our Lives Those Ourselves Solutions Find Wounds Touch Rather Tender Share Instead Most Hand Cures Person Often Which Warm Ask Us Means Who Chosen Lives
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. Henri Nouwen
Love Great True Friend Love Is Enemy Fear Intimacy Great Enemy True Friend
One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal. Henri Nouwen
Hurt Conflict Words Unity Find Divide Main Heal Tasks Create Theology Unite
Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy. Henri Nouwen
Life God Spiritual Gratitude World Perspective Nothing Our Worship Easy Seems Remembering Puts Perhaps Make Disciplines Selves Than Just Movement Little Aside Us View Moments Helps Larger Set
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God. Henri Nouwen
God Spiritual People Say People Say About Daughters Sons Identity Us Means Beloved
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. Henri Nouwen
Alone Time Solitude Community Busy Other Our Spend Intimacy Directly Potentially Write Simply Study Opened Read Pray Very Quiet Quiet Time Interact Whenever Where Different Which Places Ground Each Away Deeper Lives Grows
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship. Henri Nouwen
Patience Every Learn Against Rebel Hardship
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henri Nouwen
Silence Words Listening Somewhere Lose Distance Longer Know Heals Without Cure Closeness Cannot Meaning Speaking
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. Henri Nouwen
Life Future Enemies Past Real Life Our Backward Unpredictable Takes Real Place Us Ifs Forward Now Here Pull
For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved. Henri Nouwen
Women People Men Only Countries Ideologies Imposed Women And Men Dominated Children Loved Conquered Jesus
Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on. Henri Nouwen
Life Spiritual You Discipline Space Somewhere Everything Something Spiritual Life Prevent Counted Occupied Up Being Happen Which Create Means Planned Your Certainly Preoccupied Filled
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. Henri Nouwen
Love Future God World Leader Own Nothing Christian Self Redeemed Because Vulnerable His Accomplish Offer Irrelevant Loves Us Created Stand Her
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. Henri Nouwen
Life Spiritual Before Everyday Our Be Real Spiritual Life Only Beyond Joys Real Existence After Midst Pains Lived Now Here
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking. Henri Nouwen
Prayer Fruit Beginning Content Source Goal End Basis Core
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. Henri Nouwen
Life Property Illusion Life Is A Shared Much Based Violence Defended
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. Henri Nouwen
Love Leadership People Power Healthy Control Christian Relationships Intimate Unable Give Develop Instead Know Most How Been Who Many Receive
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. Henri Nouwen
Love Me Gratitude Joy Gift Discipline Given Am Celebrated Effort Acknowledge Explicit
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. Henri Nouwen
Great Enemy Fear Other Intimacy Great Enemy Run True Makes Does Cling Us Create Each Away
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs. Henri Nouwen
Beautiful Needs Spiritual You Natural People Most Beautiful Insecurity Become Ways Willing More Take Lead Look Most Makes Lord Closer Formation Place Your Aware Asset Need
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful. Henri Nouwen
God Easy Joyful Always Hard Painful Moment Present
A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive. Henri Nouwen
Life Lonely Destructive Without Becomes Quiet Center Place
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised. Henri Nouwen
Love Myself Journey About Allowing Longer Proved Than Loved Realised Much Teaching
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
Time Spiritual People Stronger Important Sense Increasing Our Our Time Crisis Able Spirit Struggles Emotional Journeys Most Integrate The Most Important Where Places Grow Need
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