Quotes by : Henri Nouwen

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds....

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness....

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor,....

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with....

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the....

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways,....

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships....

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.