Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
HENRI NOUWENCommunity 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.
More Henri Nouwen Quotes
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The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
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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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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
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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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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
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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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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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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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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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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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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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What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
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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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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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