Best quotes by Henri Nouwen on God

Checkout quotes by Henri Nouwen on God

• ‟ Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

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• ‟ God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

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• ‟ Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

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• ‟ Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

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• ‟ In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

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• ‟ Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.

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• ‟ The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

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• ‟ Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

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• ‟ To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

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• ‟ God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

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• ‟ Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

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• ‟ Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

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• ‟ The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

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• ‟ Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

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