This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
HENRI NOUWENPrayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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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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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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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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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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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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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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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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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
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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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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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