Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
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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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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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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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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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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 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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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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We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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