Henri Nouwen Quotes

The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.

These are the stakes. To make a world in which all of God’s children can live, or to go into the dark. We must either love each other, or we must die

I wish I know a law that would make people love on another because I would sign it.

I recognize every member of the human family as a brother; and if it was done by human beings, it was done by my brethren.

Guru Nanak Dev ji's life and teachings give a message of affection, compassion and brotherhood for the entire humanity.

The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.

Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

People are encouraged by what I do. You can feel it. I feel it. People are ready to embrace their humanity and to embrace the rest of the human race. People are ready for the idea that we're all brothers and sisters and that we need to cooperate with one another.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed . . . I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.

We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.