Henri Nouwen Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Journey, Roots

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.94, Image

• Jesus has to be and become ever more the center of my life. It is not enough that Jesus is my teacher, my guide, my source of inspiration. It is not even enough that he is my companion on they journey, my friend and my brother. Jesus must become the heart of my heart, the fire of my life, the love of my soul, the bridegroom of my spirit. He must become my only thought, my only concern, my only desire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, Brother, Jesus

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (1992). “Jesus and Mary: Finding Our Sacred Center”

• Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Journey, Spiritual Journey

  Henri J. M. Nouwen, Peter K. Weiskel (2006). “Love in a Fearful Land: A Guatemalan Story”

• The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Teaching, Journey

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.14, Image

• I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Character, Journey

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2016). “The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition: A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight”, p.113, Convergent Books

• The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

  Henri Nouwen

  Journey, Inward, Deeper

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.94, Image

• The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

  Henri Nouwen

  Writing, Journey, Space

• [The Return of the Prodigal book] came out of my emotional and spiritual journey during the four months I was gone from Daybreak because of depression.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Book, Journey

  Source: www.liguorian.org

• I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Struggle, Journey

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life”, p.266, Hachette UK

• Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Journey, Focus

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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