Henri Nouwen Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• This is what life is about. It is being sent on a trip by a loving God, who is waiting at home for our return and is eager to watch the slides we took and hear about the friends we made. When we travel with the eyes and ears of the God who sent us, we will see wonderful sights, hear wonderful sounds, meet wonderful people ... and be happy to return home.

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Eye, Sight

• A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

  Henri Nouwen

  Patience, Mean, Patient Person

• Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

  Henri Nouwen

  Waiting, Periods

• Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Waiting, Feelings

• 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

• Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Waiting, Want

• Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Expectations, Waiting

• 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

• [...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.

  Henri Nouwen

  Two, People, Waiting

• Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Broken, People

• Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Waiting, Want

• It is good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go. There are so many moments in life when you are free to pray. When you are waiting for the cashier in the supermarket, getting mad because he or she doesn't hurry, say a little prayer: 'Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' Take that prayer with you wherever you go.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Prayer, Mad

• Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Imagination, Waiting

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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