I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
HENRI NOUWENTrust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
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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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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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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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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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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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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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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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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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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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