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.
HENRI NOUWENThe 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.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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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 often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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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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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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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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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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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
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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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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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