Your heart is greater than your wounds.
HENRI NOUWENHospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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Forgiveness changes the way we remember.
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Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.
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One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are.
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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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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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Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God’s eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God’s heart.
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Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.
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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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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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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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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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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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We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
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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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