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
Henri Nouwen quotes about
service-to-others wounds woundedness
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.
grateful eye heart
I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty, even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.
deep-love
Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply.
baptism church body-of-christ
The Church is the body of Christ fashioned by baptism & the Eucharist.
rejects
Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others
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...