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Henri Nouwen

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his ‘being different’ gets in the way.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained – through prayer, study, and careful analysis – to manifest the divine event of God’s saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God’s people.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

– Henri Nouwen

Henri Nouwen

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

– Henri Nouwen

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