579 Quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

When we see ourselves in a relationship of love with God, there is always something of a lover’s dilemma, a struggle to give and receive, to trust and obey the call.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...

Your heart is greater than your wounds.

To console does not mean to take away the pain but rather to be there and say, “You are not alone, I am with you. Together.