Henri Nouwen Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Church, Hunger And Thirst

• The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

  Henri Nouwen

  Successful, Church, Corporations

• Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to keep going to the margins of our society. The homeless, the starving, parentless children, people with AIDS, our emotionally disturbed brothers and sisters - they require our first attention.

  Henri Nouwen

  Brother, Children, People

• 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.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Blessing, Giving

• The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

  Henri Nouwen

  Baptism, Church, Body

• I am very grateful that I am in touch with so many different church groups. I am always very moved by the fact that so many people - practically over the spectrum of the Christian world - are responding to my writing.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Grateful, Writing

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

• The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Church, Moral, Behavior

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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