Quotes from Henri Nouwen
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
- Henri Nouwen
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
- Henri Nouwen
Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.
- Henri Nouwen
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
- Henri Nouwen
Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.
- Henri Nouwen
Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.
- Henri Nouwen
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
- Henri Nouwen
Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
- Henri Nouwen
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
- Henri Nouwen
In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.
- Henri Nouwen
When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
- Henri Nouwen
God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.
- Henri Nouwen