579 Quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen

The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

Both trust and gratitude require the courage to take risks because distrust and resentment, in their need to keep their claim on me, keep warning me how dangerous it is to let go of my careful calculations and guarded predictions.

Compassion can never coexist with judgement because judgement creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

We are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.

If God is compassionate, then certainly those who love God should be compassionate as well.

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.