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Community life is not easy for somebody like me, who is used to living by himself and doing what he wants. It's a demanding life, and you quickly get in touch with your own handicaps and weaknesses.

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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Live, work, and travel with handicapped people, so I can stay close to them. But since I am often busy with many things, it's a constant struggle to keep the handicapped members of our community in the center of my life.
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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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Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.
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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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His (Christ's) appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross.
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What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.
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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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Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.
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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you the beloved.
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When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.
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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.
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The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
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That's the temptation of the devil: Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!
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Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
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Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
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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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There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.
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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 is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
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Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.
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