Henri Nouwen Quotes

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

War would end if the dead could return.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

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

I do not believe in the law of hate.

A lasting peace cannot be founded on force, but only on a moral order.

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

I believed in the goodness of the Australian people; I believed they did not want to be attacking each other, and from those thoughts, I got the idea of Reconciliation in the campaign slogan and of turning this into something practical by calling a summit to bring representatives of all sections of society together, from the wealthiest to the poor.

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

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

Every fight should be settled through love and dialogue.

The natural instinct is to join in the chorus of conflict, to make your voice louder, your point bigger, and your position stronger. But we will not solve the significant and real problems our country faces if we cannot bring ourselves to embrace a mindset of grace.

Hate won't solve anything.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it's gonna happen.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.