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Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Henri Nouwen

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
Catholic Priest
Presbyter
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
University Teacher
Writer
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
Stones
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Existence
Lives
Human
Mosaic
Humans
Mosaics
Irreplaceable
Priceless

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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 all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.
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The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
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We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.
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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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I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
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If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
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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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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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[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.
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Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, You are a beautiful person, you are the beloved of God, don't forget it? That's an important discipline.
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I had a deep experience of God's love for me.
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The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
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That's the temptation of the devil: Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!
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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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It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.
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It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
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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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