Henri Nouwen Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

  Henri Nouwen

  Sky, Saint, Messengers

• The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Order, Waiting

• Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Goal, Saint

  "The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery".

• Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people.

  Henri Nouwen

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  "Bread For the Journey". Book by Henri J. M. Nouwen, 1996.

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