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The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

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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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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Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.
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Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.
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Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.
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That's the temptation of the devil: Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!
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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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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.
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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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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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The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
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...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
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You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
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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.
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Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
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Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.
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Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
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One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see.
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Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.
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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 have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.
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