Logo
Quote by Henri Nouwen
Jesus didnt say, Blessed are those who care for the poor. He said,

Jesus didnt say, Blessed are those who care for the poor. He said, Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken. It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. – Henri Nouwen

Other quotes by Henri Nouwen

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. – Henri Nouwen

Category:
God
Author
Henri Nouwen
Read Quote

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen

Category:
Friendship
Author
Henri Nouwen
Read Quote

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. – Henri Nouwen

Category:
God
Author
Henri Nouwen
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
God
category

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
God

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. – Arthur Young

Category:
God

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. – Mother Teresa

Category:
God

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. – Peter Marshall

Category:
God

Random Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:
Freedom

Id visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. – Larry Niven

Category:
Medical

One thousand Americans stop smoking every day — by dying. – Author Unknown

Category:
Smoking

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. – Susan Sontag

Category:
Death