One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
HENRI NOUWENLearning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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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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It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.
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Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
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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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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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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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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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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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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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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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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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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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