The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
HENRI NOUWENIn a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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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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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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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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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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Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
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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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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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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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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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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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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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