Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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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Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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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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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
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My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.
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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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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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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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We 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.
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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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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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Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life…all of our life.
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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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