Quotes by : Henri J.M. Nouwen

To care means first of all to empty our own cup and to allow the other to come close to us. It means....

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in....

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

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove....

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social....

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling,....

I also came to see that I should not worry about tomorrow, next week, next year, or next century. The....

What does it mean to care? Let me start by saying that the word care has become a very ambivalent word.....

Our minds are always active. We analyze, reflect, daydream, or dream. There is not a moment during the....

For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite....