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I choose L'Arche L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.

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Henri Nouwen
Age: 64 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 24
Died: 1996
Died: September 21
Catholic Priest
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Psychologist
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University Teacher
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Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen
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a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
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When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus.
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As we read spiritually about spiritual things, we open our hearts to God's voice. Sometimes we must be willing to put down the book we are reading and just listen to what God is saying to us through our words.
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One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.
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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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Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?
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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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It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
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Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
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Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
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In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
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The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
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...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek.
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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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When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
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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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I had a deep experience of God's love for me.
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I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.
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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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The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes to us through the poor. The most remarkable experience of those who work with the poor is that, in the end, the poor give more than they receive. They give food to us.
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