We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God …

Henri Nouwen
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We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat. ✨ Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings Into One Joyful Step
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In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us. ✨ Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen, p.20, HarperCollins
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. ✨ Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen, p.18, HarperCollins
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.
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. ✨ Henri Nouwen (2013). The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, p.17, Image

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat. ✨ Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings Into One Joyful Step

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