Henri Nouwen Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Friendship, Pain, Person

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Friendship, Friend, Healing

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen

Silence, Words, Cannot

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri Nouwen

Life, Violence, Illusion

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
Henri Nouwen

God, Blessed, Care

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

Successful, Become, Culture

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
Henri Nouwen

Love, Loved, Journey

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Henri Nouwen

God, Poverty, Hold

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

God, Live, Important

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Clergyman

Born: January 24, 1932

Died: October 2, 1996

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