Henri Nouwen Quotes About Brokenness

Quotes about: Brokenness

• Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relationship, Broken, Expectations

• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

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

• Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Compassion, Being Human

  Henri J. M. Nouwen, John S. Mogabgab (2012). “A Spirituality of Living: The Henri Nouwen Spirituality Series”, p.32, Upper Room Books

• In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Successful, Way

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Mean, Joy

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

• L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people are given to the world to tell others about peace and forgiveness and celebration, to make them aware that in the midst of their brokenness, there is joy; in the midst of their wounded nature, there is healing.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, Home, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Compassion, Vulnerable

  Donald P. McNeill, Douglas A. Morrison, Henri J. M. Nouwen (1982). “Compassion, a reflection on the Christian life”, Doubleday Books

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Compassion, Surround, Brokenness

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.35, Image

• The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Son, Compassion

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