Henri Nouwen Quotes About Intimacy

Quotes about: Intimacy

• Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Mean

• When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Inspiration, Forgiving

• Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Enemy, Doe

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.18, Image

• If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Friend, Love Is, Enemy

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.23, Image

• 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

• Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Emotional, Safe

• Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, New Horizons, Way

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.24, Image

• It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Discipline, Intimacy

• Jesus didn't live alone. He had Peter, John, and James around him. There were the Twelve and the other disciples. They formed circles of intimacy around Jesus. We too need these circles of intimacy, but it's a discipline.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Circles, Discipline

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• 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

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