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Henri Nouwen Inspirational Quotes (277)

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The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.
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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
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For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
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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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There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.
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To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.
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Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.
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Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.
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You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
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The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.
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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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Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
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Forgiveness indeed heals memories
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