The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
HENRI NOUWENThe church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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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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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
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I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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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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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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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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In 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.
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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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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.
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