We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
HENRI NOUWENWe cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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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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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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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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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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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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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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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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