579 Quotes by Henri J.M. Nouwen

I was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

The real mystery of marriage is not that husband and wife love each other so much that they can recognize God in each other’s lives, but more because God loves them so much that they can discover each other more and more as living reminder’s of God’s presence.