Henri Nouwen
Henri Nouwen
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen,was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian. His interests were rooted primarily in psychology, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice and community. Over the course of his life, Nouwen was heavily influenced by the work of Anton Boisen, Thomas Merton, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh and Jean Vanier...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 January 1932
life prayer land
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
prayer distance taken
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.
prayer community clubs
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.
prayer existence humans
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
jesus prayer mad
It is good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go. There are so many moments in life when you are free to pray. When you are waiting for the cashier in the supermarket, getting mad because he or she doesn't hurry, say a little prayer: 'Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' Take that prayer with you wherever you go.
prayer goal fruit
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
prayer listening firsts
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
prayer passionate pursuit
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
christian prayer here-and-now
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
prayer community wells
By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
prayer home way
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
prayer thinking involved
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
prayer desire passionate
I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
jesus prayer children
Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope.