Henri Nouwen Quotes

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ...

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the...

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it...

When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defen...

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing t...

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and close...

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that some...

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering...

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the expe...

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are p...

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bo...

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unaltera...

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I le...

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realis...

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main way...

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are wait...

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an...

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from w...

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate re...

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

The church itself is a spiritual director. It tries to connect your story with God's story. Just to ...