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All Quotes by author - Henri Nouwen
" A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive. "
Life
Without
Quiet
" Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom. "
People
Them
Giving
" As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be. "
Life
Death
Gift
" Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come. "
Smile
Life
Love
" Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on. "
Discipline
You
Spiritual
" Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity. "
Welcome
Day
Celebrate
" Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy. "
True
Create
Enemy
" For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved. "
People
Loved
Children
" Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey. "
Friendship
Always
Spiritual
" God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful. "
Moment
Hard
God
" God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well. "
God
Others
Live
" 'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention. "
Day
Live
Me
" If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. "
True Friend
Fear
Great
" 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. "
Time
Grow
Spiritual
" In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. "
Society
Security
Busy
" 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. "
Together
Will
Solitude
" In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. "
Gospel
Us
Reveal
" Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. "
Fear
Happy
Horizon
" I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real. "
Talk
Life
Depression
" Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. "
God
Blessed
Broken
" Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way. "
Artist
Being Different
People
" Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg. "
Walk
Broken
Community
" Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go. "
Go
Change
Blessing
" Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. "
God
You
Live
" 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. "
Love
Leadership
Control
" Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. "
Life
Illusion
Violence
" 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. "
Create
Hurt
Unity
" 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. "
Beautiful
People
Spiritual
" 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. "
Own
Loss
Hurt
" Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us. "
Us
Violence
Our
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