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Henri Nouwen Quotes: The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?
         

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?


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Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.



What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.



For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.



You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.



Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.



My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.



In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.



The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.



O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.



Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.





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In life, you either choose to be a powerleess victim or one of the choosen ones, who now has the power to understand the pain of others.

In life, you either choose to be a powerleess victim or one of the choosen ones, who now has the power to understand the pain of others.




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True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.



A thought is harmless unless we believe it.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it.



I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.

I am faced with a bruising dilemma: pay to fix the dishwasher or continue serving everything in waffle cones.



I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.



our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.



He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.

He has, He reminds us, "graven thee upon the palms of my hands" (1 Nephi 21:16). Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn His back on us now.



To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.




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