Henri Nouwen Spiritual Quotes — Page 7

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is the opposite of distraction … how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.”

People Voice Opposites

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Henri Nouwen

Theologian, Author

Spiritual

“One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.”

Taken Prayer Distance

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Spiritual

“Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others”

Rejects

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Spiritual

“In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.”

Eye Significant

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Spiritual

“When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.”

Prayer Realizing Praying

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Spiritual

“Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.”

Mean Spiritual Space

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Spiritual

“Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.”

Want God Is There

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Spiritual

“In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.”

Realizing Solitude

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Spiritual

“Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.”

Spiritual Journey Focus

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Spiritual

“I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding.”

Character Spiritual Journey

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Spiritual

“To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.”

Believe Important Live In The Present

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Spiritual

“The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.”

Real Spiritual Pain

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Henri Nouwen — Spiritual Quotes

Henri Nouwen Quotes