Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
HENRI NOUWENIn our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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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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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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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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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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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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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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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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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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God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
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The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.
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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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My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
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