Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
Henri NouwenThe great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
Henri NouwenYou don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
Henri NouwenThe way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom, staying behind the sets and choosing the last place! Why is the way of Jesus worth choosing? Because it is the way to the Kingdom, the way Jesus took, and the way that brings everlasting life.
Henri Nouwen