Henri Nouwen Spiritual Quotes — Page 13

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spirit - I would say. It is the Spirit in us who reveals God.”

Believe Heart Jesus

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Henri Nouwen

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source.”

Giving Ideas Distance

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Spiritual

“Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.”

Heart Prayer Focus

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Spiritual

“As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.”

Silence Discipline Temptation

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Spiritual

“The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.”

Men People Voice

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Spiritual

“I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.”

Spiritual Struggle Journey

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Spiritual

“Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.”

Spiritual Space Discipline

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Spiritual

“Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.”

Prayer Goal Fruit

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Spiritual

“If you start with community and want to be faithful to community, you have to realize that what binds you together is not mutual compatibility or common tasks, but God. In order to stay in touch with that call to community, we always have to return to solitude.”

Order Community Solitude

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Spiritual

“Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human gifts among all people we can indeed make peacemaking a way of being.”

Eye Gratitude Mutual Support

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Spiritual

“A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.”

Mean Children Beautiful

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Spiritual

“Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.”

Life Is Entertainment Distraction

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Henri Nouwen — Spiritual Quotes

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