Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
Henri NouwenThe gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that is your heart.
Henri NouwenThe journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
Henri NouwenSolitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Henri NouwenI know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.
Henri NouwenIt is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
Henri Nouwen