Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
HENRI NOUWENYou don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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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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Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
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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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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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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 that is a friend who cares.
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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
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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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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.
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