If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
HENRI NOUWENWe are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
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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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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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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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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
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Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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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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Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
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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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