Henri Nouwen Spiritual Quotes — Page 5

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.”

Running Doe Enemy

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Henri Nouwen

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?”

Growing Godly Getting Older

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Spiritual

“Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.”

Silence Distance Friendship

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Spiritual

“Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.”

Giving Lying

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Spiritual

“When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.”

Christian Inspiration Forgiving

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Spiritual

“To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.”

Spiritual Garden Loneliness

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Spiritual

“Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.”

Firsts Prayer Listening

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Spiritual

“The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. When we are able to take the next step with trust that we will have enough light for the step that follows, we can walk through life with joy and be surprised at how far we go.”

Art Light Dark

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Spiritual

“Once you are in communion with God, you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear other people in whom God has also found a dwelling place.”

People Eye Dwelling Place

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Spiritual

“Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.”

Prayer Manipulation Degenerates

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Spiritual

“when the imitation of Christ does not mean to live a life like Christ, but to live your life as authentically as Christ lived his, then there are many ways and forms in which a man can be a Christian.”

Men Mean Christian

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Spiritual

“Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.”

Real Christian Godly

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Henri Nouwen — Spiritual Quotes

Henri Nouwen Quotes