Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
HENRI NOUWENThe fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don’t see the results.
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.
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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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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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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
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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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