464 Quotes by Henri Nouwen

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment.

While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope.

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.

Emit gratitude as though it was done

The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.