Henri Nouwen Quotes About Communion

Quotes about: Communion

• ...marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Believe, Reality

• Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Blessed, Broken

• Jesus said Communion first, community comes out of that, and out of community, ministry.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Community, Ministry

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Important, Ministry

• In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Confused, Struggle, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• Based or our baptism, all are called to a mystical life, to communion with God. We need to claim that, to taste it and feel it, to trust that the deeper we live this communion, the more our behavior will witness to the truth.

  Henri Nouwen

  Baptism, Needs, Taste

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Eye, Dwelling Place, People

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

• ...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Desire, Looks

• There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in the morning he came down from the mountain and called his twelve apostles around him. In the afternoon he went out on the plain with them to preach the Good News and heal the sick. He had communion with God first, then he had community, and then he went out to do the work of God. That's the order of things.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Morning, Night

  Source: www.liguorian.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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