Browse Henri Nouwen quotes and sayings.
Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this […]
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and […]
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. Henri […]
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into […]
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. Henri […]
The three big lies: I am what I have. I am what I do. I […]
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no […]
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God. Henri Nouwen
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. […]
When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of […]
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds…but how can we put […]
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of […]
You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way […]
Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place. Henri Nouwen
The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide. Henri Nouwen
What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to […]
Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern […]
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing […]