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Quotes from Henri Nouwen

The Wounded Healer

The Christian way of life does not take away our lonliness, it treasures it as a precious gift. (84)

Who can take away suffering without entering it? (72)

The Christian leader is called to...make visible in daily events the fact that behind the dirty curtain of our painful symptoms is something great to be seen. (44)

When Christianity is reduced to an all-encompasing ideology...man is all to prone to be skeptical about its relevance to his life experience. (12)

In the Name of Jesus

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his vulnerable self (17)

The question is not how many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accpmplish? Can you show results? But, are you in love with Jesus?

Jesus has a different vision of maturity: It is the ability and the willingness to go where you would rather not go. (62)

The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross (62)

The long history of the Church is the history of people ever and again tempted to choose power over love, control over the cross, being a leader over being led. (60)

It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life (59)

Laying down your life means making your own faith and doubt, hope and despair, joy and sadness, courage and fear available to others as ways of getting in touch with the Lord of life. (43)

Ministry is not only a communal experience, it is a mutual experience. (42)

From Life of the Beloved

The world is evil only when you become its slave (131)

The first step to healing is not a step away from the pain, but a step toward it (94)

Each human being suffers in a way no other human being suffers (88)

The problem with modern living is that we are too busy to realize that we are being blessed (80)

We are God's chosen ones, even when our world does not choose us (58)