Quotes from 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
Good families always ritualize the table. You can say, "This is a Christmas meal; this is a birthday meal."
- Henri Nouwen
If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.
- Henri Nouwen
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
- Henri Nouwen
Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.
- Henri Nouwen
...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
- Henri Nouwen
True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.
- Henri Nouwen
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
- Henri Nouwen
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
- Henri Nouwen
Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.
- Henri Nouwen
Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
- Henri Nouwen
Ministry means the ongoing attempt to put one's own search for God, with all the moments of pain and joy, despair and hope, at the disposal of those who want to join this search but do not know how.
- Henri Nouwen