Quotes from Henri Nouwen
Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
- Henri Nouwen
Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
- Henri Nouwen
You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your life then you can possibly imagine.
- Henri Nouwen
There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.
- Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
- Henri Nouwen
By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.
- Henri Nouwen
The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- Henri Nouwen
I still believe that the university is a place where people can develop their minds and learn skills, but also they can develop their personalities and their spiritual life.
- Henri Nouwen
In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.
- Henri Nouwen
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
- Henri Nouwen
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
- Henri Nouwen
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.
- Henri Nouwen