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“We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

— Henri Poincaré

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Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

“We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

— Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

Henri Poincaré Quote: “We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.”

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1. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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2. “Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

3. “Community is where humility and glory touch.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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4. “Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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5. “Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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7. “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.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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8. “Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

9. “We are called to be fruitful – not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

10. “Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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11. “Our life is full of brokenness – broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God’s faithful presence in our lives.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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12. “Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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13. “You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

14. “Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

15. “Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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16. “When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

17. “Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

18. “It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

19. “A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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20. “Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

22. “Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

23. “In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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24. “I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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25. “Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

26. “God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

27. “Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

28. “The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

29. “Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

30. “Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

31. “Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

32. “Distance never separates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad because I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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33. “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.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

34. “In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

35. “Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

36. “Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God’s Kingdom.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

37. “The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

38. “True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who’ve found the center of their lives in their own hearts.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

39. “To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

40. “Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

41. “Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

42. “Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

43. “The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

44. “When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

45. “When we give generously, with an abundance mentality, what we give away will multiply.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

46. “The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

47. “We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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48. “Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

49. “It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

50. “It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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