Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
HENRI NOUWENLearning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.
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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
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Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.
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