Henri Nouwen Quotes

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.

Pray about everything and worry about nothing. You will enjoy life much more.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

The world, universe, God, whatever you call it, has so much more in store if you just sit back and relax and do what's right in front of you.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

Trust in things being as they are is the secret of life. But we don't want to hear that. I can absolutely trust that in the next year my life is going to be changed, different, yet always just the way it is.

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

No matter what I go through today, I need not fear. For God is all-powerful and God is here. I am never separate from the One who created me. There is nothing I can do to make Him turn his face away from me. I am loved, I am cared for, and I am totally safe in the arms of God.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.

Put out of your mind what is past and do not fret and worry about what has not yet come to pass.

That was very comforting to me to hold onto that belief, that I did have a heavenly Father who was watching over me.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

Having been in the business for a while, I never like to look forward. You kind of enjoy what's happening while it's happening and leave the rest up to God, the angels, the trees, the stars - whatever you want to call it.

You have faith in God, and know he has a plan for me.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

For me, God is someone who takes care of me and creates good and bad phases in my life so that i can learn from them. This is why even when I am going through a lean phase, I don't get fazed, for I believe that's God's way of teaching me something new.

I've tried to plan for my future in the past and it doesn't always work out the way I want it to, so leave it all up to the man upstairs.