I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
HENRI NOUWENForgiveness changes the way we remember.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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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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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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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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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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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”
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Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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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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Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you’d rather not go.
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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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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing that is a friend who cares.
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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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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