We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
HENRI NOUWENThe great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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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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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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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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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.
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Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.
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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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I trust in you, Lord, but keep helping me in my moments of distrust and doubt.
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Our life is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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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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Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, “I love you, too.”
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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”
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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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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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