Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
HENRI NOUWENYou don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
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Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.
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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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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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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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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.
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Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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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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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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I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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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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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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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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