Henri Nouwen Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Motivational, Friendship

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

• The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Doe

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, HarperCollins

• Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Peace, Freedom

• Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Life Is, Possession

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings Into One Joyful Step”

• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Lonely, Distance

• To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Loneliness

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.34, Image

• Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Prayer, Land

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