Henri Nouwen Quotes

When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.

Love each other because you are brethren from one father and mother. If you love one another, then God will be with you and will submit the enemy under your hands and you will live peacefully. In case, however, you live hatefully in feuds and dissension, then you will destroy yourselves.

Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.

Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.

War would end if the dead could return.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

The world would have peace if the men of politics would only follow the Gospel.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward cross the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

I have spent over 50 years preaching and teaching the values of peace, mutual respect and altruism.

Only love can heal hatred.