579 Quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen

death is not the total dissolution or our identity but the way to its fullest revelation.

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

Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us.

Jesus, the Son of God, is the man of sorrows, but also the man of complete joy.

The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord.

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

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

When God looks at our world, God must weep. God must weep because the lust for power has entrapped and corrupted the human spirit. In the news and even in our families and ourselves we see that instead of gratitude there is resentment, instead of forgiveness there is revenge, instead of healing there is wounding, instead of compassion there is competition, instead of cooperation there is violence, and instead of love there is immense fear.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.