Henri Nouwen Quotes - Page 17

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• 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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• I speak of God's love and grace and redemption and freedom, but when I say "in the context of this community," it is heard differently. To be with people so obviously broken, so obviously handicapped, and here to discover real joy and peace - that makes the Word of God come alive.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Broken, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• 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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• Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Answers, Mystery, Existence

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• It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Silence, Contemplative

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• If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Essentials, Want

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Solitude, Essentials

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• You don't have to run around world proving you're lovable.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, World, Lovable

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Addresses, Way

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.1, HarperCollins

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• Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Want, Weakness

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Home, Holy Ground

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Who Cares, Poor

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• No one person can fulfill all your needs. But the community can truly hold you. The community can let you experience the fact that, beyond your anguish, there are human hands that hold you and show you God's faithful love.

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  Hands, Community, Faithful

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.7, Image

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• ...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.

  Henri Nouwen

  Stories, World, Want

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• The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Needs, Entering

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.38, Image

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• 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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• As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Thinking, Involved

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• The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Soul

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• Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Important, Ministry

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• 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

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• ...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.

  Henri Nouwen

  Heart, Desire, Looks

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• Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Mean, Risk

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• People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

  Henri Nouwen

  Kissing, People, World

  "Encounters with Merton". Book by Henri Nouwen, September 1, 2004.

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• You are a Christian only so long as you constantly pose critical questions to the society you live in, so long as you stay unsatisfied with the status quo, and keep saying that a new world is yet to come.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Long, World

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “Lent and Easter Wisdom from Henri J. M. Nouwen: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together with Nouwen's Own Words”

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• Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Talking, Truth Revealed

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