579 Quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen

Therefore every real revolutionary is challenged to be a mystic at heart, and he who walks the mystical way is called to unmask the illusory quality of human society.

Love is not based on the willingness to listen, to understand problems of others, or to tolerate their otherness. Love is based on the mutuality of the confession of our total self to each other.

I can only be healed from above, from where God reaches down. What is impossible for me is possible for God. “With God, everything is possible.

Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God’s guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

I am convinced that healing is often so difficult because we don’t want to know the pain.

I have also learned to catch the darkness early, not to allow sadness to grow into depression or let a sense of being rejected develop into a feeling of abandonment. Even in the renewed and deepened friendship, I feel the freedom to point to the little clouds and ask for help in letting them pass by.

I often wonder if my knowledge about God has not become my greatest stumbling block to my knowledge of God.

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.