Henri Nouwen Quotes

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.

Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.

I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

Our bodies... are the tabernacles of our spirits.

I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

If people would get in touch with their spirits, they would be able to heal, emotionally and physically.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.