Henri Nouwen Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• Community is where humility and glory touch.

  Henri Nouwen

  Humility, Community, Glory

  Henri J. M. Nouwen, John S. Mogabgab (2012). “A Spirituality of Living: The Henri Nouwen Spirituality Series”, p.20, Upper Room Books

• However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
  Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
  The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Heart, Giving

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

• Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

  Henri Nouwen

  Fate, Giving, Goal

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.7, Harper Collins

• Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

• If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Order, Community, Solitude

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

• 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

• Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Important, Fruit

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.23, Harper Collins

• People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real Presence of God. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's Glory.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Light, People

• The third discipline is community. Whom do you choose as your companions? Whom do you choose to be friends with, to live with? Are they people who love you, and care for you, and nurture you?

  Henri Nouwen

  Love You, Discipline, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Flames, Community

• Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Heart, Community

• 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

  Writing, Community, Solitude

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation”, p.13, Image

• 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

• The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Loneliness, Giving, Community

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Community, Ministry

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hypocrisy, Community, Inability

• 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

• By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Community, Wells

• We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Eye, People

• If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Essentials, Want

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

• I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Broken, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hard Times, Time Keeping, Community

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

• I wrote to my bishop, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, and explained that I wanted not just permission to stay longer, but a mission. He met me at the Trosly L'Arche community and we spent a few days together . . . I wanted him to get to know L'Arche, to understand what I was doing there. Afterward he said, "I understand now, Henri. You have found a home for your self."

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Self, Community

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Community, Doe

• Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, People, Community

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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