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Henri Nouwen Inspirational Quotes (277)

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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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My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.
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When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.
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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
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To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.
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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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In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.
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Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.
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Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.
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Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
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Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
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Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.
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Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope.
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We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.
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Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.
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Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
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Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.
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In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.
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When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God's love within me and around me.
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Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
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