When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
Henri NouwenListening 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 NouwenIt is not easy to enter into the silence and reach beyond the many boisterous and demanding voices of our world and to discover there the small intimate voice saying: 'You are my Belived Child, on you my favor rests.'
Henri NouwenSpiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
Henri Nouwen