The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
HENRI NOUWENThe only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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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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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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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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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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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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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 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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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
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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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Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
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Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.
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