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...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

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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Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
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I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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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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Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.
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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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To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.
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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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It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
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When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.
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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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Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.
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To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
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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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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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In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.
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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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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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Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.
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Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.
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