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 NOUWENWe are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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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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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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We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
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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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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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I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
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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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Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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Dear God, I am so afraid to open my clenched fists! Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to? Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands? Please help me to gradually open my hands and to discover that I am not what I own, but what you want to give me.
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If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
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