579 Quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It’s a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Getting answers to my questions is not the goal of the spiritual life. Living in the presence of God is the greater call.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It’s a way of being.

A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

People who have come to know the joy of God do not deny the darkness, but they choose not to live in it.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.