Quotes about Connection
We resist getting near the suffering of another partly out of our unwillingness to suffer ourselves.
— Henri Nouwen
Healing encounters and deep communion with others come about from persons who have experienced at least a taste of love offering love to another, without manipulation or subtle games.
— Henri Nouwen
If prayer, understood as an intimate relationship with God, is indeed the basis of all relationships—to ourselves as well as to others.
— Henri Nouwen
crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him. Real prayer comes from the heart.
— Henri Nouwen
ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.
— Henri Nouwen
Here is a home for you; maybe you need us." All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted.
— Henri Nouwen
Our children are our most important guests, who enter into our home, ask for careful attention, stay for a while and then leave to follow their own way. Children are strangers whom we have to get to know.
— Henri Nouwen
detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others
— Henri Nouwen
Truth does not mean an idea, concept, or doctrine, but the true relationship.
— Henri Nouwen
I've yet to meet anyone who has come closer to Jesus by forsaking the church.
— Henri Nouwen
We cannot see God in the other person. Only God in us can see God in the other person.
— Henri Nouwen
And for you who will make this spiritual journey with me, I hope and pray that you too will discover within yourselves not only the lost children of God, but also the compassionate mother and father that is God.
— Henri Nouwen