When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
HENRI NOUWENWe need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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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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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
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Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.
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Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
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Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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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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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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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
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I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.
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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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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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