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Our humanity comes to its fullest bloom in giving. We become beautiful people when we give whatever we can give: a smile, a handshake, a kiss, an embrace, a word of love, a present, a part of our life... all of our life (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
... real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
As long as we relate to the trees, the rivers, the mountains, the fields and the oceans as properties which we can manipulate according to our real or fabricated needs, nature remains opaque, and does not reveal to us its true being (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
... When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and sisters. Up until then it is night and darkness is still with us. Let us pray for the light. It is the peace the world cannot give (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief.... Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others? (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
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 (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
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 (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
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 (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
The pain that comes from deep love makes your love more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
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 (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another (Henri Nouwen Quotes)
Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared (Henri Nouwen Quotes)