Henri Nouwen Quotes

I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.

My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

I would want everyone to love someone in the purest sense of the word - an unconditional love in which you don't expect anything in return.

'Haaye ve' is special to me because it is about unconditional love. The song is that when you love someone you can take the most drastic step for that person.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.