Author: Henri Nouwen

Quotes

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

- Henri Nouwen

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

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

- Henri Nouwen

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

- Henri Nouwen

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

- Henri Nouwen

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

- Henri Nouwen

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.

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.

- Henri Nouwen

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

- Henri Nouwen

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

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

- Henri Nouwen

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