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
prayer passionate pursuit
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
rejects
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others
thanksgiving thankful spiritual
Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
prayer community wells
By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
stories world want
...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the world around us and help us discover who we are.
successful church movement
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
rebel hardship
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
prayer thinking involved
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
irrelevance leader world
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...
prayer existence humans
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
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.
entertainment life-is distraction
Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
fighting world university
The university has become a place that prepares you for the fights in the world.
hard-times time-keeping community
Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.