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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
Henri Nouwen
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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
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Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
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It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
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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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Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.
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The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.
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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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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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Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God's Kingdom.
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Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
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Forgiveness indeed heals memories
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Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
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There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.
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A happy life is a life for others.
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.
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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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We cannot make it rain but we can see to it that the rain falls on prepared soil.
Henri Nouwen
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
Henri Nouwen
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
Henri Nouwen
Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
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