Henri Nouwen Spiritual Quotes — Page 12

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.”

Way Spiritual Addresses

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Henri Nouwen

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“How do you pray? Take the gospel of each day and spend ten minutes with it. Read it, and read it again. Walk into the world with the gospel in your heart.”

Heart World Each Day

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Spiritual

“As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.”

Thinking Prayer

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Spiritual

“That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!"”

Devil Stones

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Spiritual

“When we no longer pray, no longer listen to the voice of love that speaks to us in the moment, our lives become absurd lives in which we are thrown back and forth between the past and the future. If we could just be, for a few minutes each day, fully where we are, we would indeed discover that we are not alone and that the One who is with us wants only one thing: to give us love”

Giving Past Voice

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Spiritual

“When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.”

Moving Use Suffering

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Spiritual

“Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.”

Prayer Existence

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Spiritual

“Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.”

Way Home

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Spiritual

“The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known to us there, to free us from our fears, and to make our own deepest self known to us Each time you let the love of God penetrate deeper into your heart it leads to a love of ourselves that enables us to give whole-hearted love to our fellow human beings. In the seclusion of our hearts we learn to know the hidden presence of God; and with that spiritual knowledge we can lead a loving life.”

Heart Spiritual Jesus

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Spiritual

“The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.”

Church Moral Behavior

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Spiritual

“I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.”

Desire Prayer Passionate

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Spiritual

“Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.”

Christian Prayer Here And Now

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Henri Nouwen — Spiritual Quotes

Henri Nouwen Quotes