Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
HENRI NOUWENWe are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
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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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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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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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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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Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
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Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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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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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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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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