To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.
Henri NouwenI was forced to enter the basement of my soul and look directly at what was hidden there, and to choose, in the face of it all, not death but life.
Henri NouwenA waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
Henri NouwenThe leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.
Henri NouwenNow I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'
Henri Nouwen