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The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
Catholic Priest
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Psychologist
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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That's the temptation of the devil: Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!
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As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
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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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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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People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.
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Forgiveness indeed heals memories
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a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
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In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.
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I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.
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Ministry in no way is a privilege...it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister.
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I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
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Community 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.
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Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, This is a Christmas meal this is a birthday meal.
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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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Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.
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In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
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It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
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The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but 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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