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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.

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
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As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.
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Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human.
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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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Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry. Silence is solitude practiced in action.
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To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.
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It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
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Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.
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The world is evil only when you become its slave.
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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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As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
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There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.
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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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Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
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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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Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
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Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
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It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.
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Jesus came to announce to us that an identity based on success, popularity and power is a false identity- an illusion! Loudly and clearly he says: 'You are not what the world makes you but you are children of God.
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When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
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