Henri Nouwen Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• For as long as you can remember, you have been a pleaser, depending on others to give you an identity. You need not look at that only in a negative way. You wanted to give your heart to others, and you did so quickly and easily. But now you are being asked to let go of all these self-made props and trust that God is enough for you. You must stop being a pleaser and reclaim your identity as a free self.

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Heart, Remember You

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.5, Image

• Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Waiting, Identity

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.35, Image

• Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you; but you are children of God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Children, Identity

• It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Identity, Insecurity, Want

• When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

  Henri Nouwen

  Inspirational, Religious, Judging

• To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Judging, Identity

• 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

  Daughter, Spiritual, Mean

  "Bread For The Journey". Book by Henri Nouwen (p. 210), 1996.

• In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

  Henri Nouwen

  Identity, Occupation, Way

  "The Essential Henri Nouwen" by Henri Nouwen, (p. 152), 2009.

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