Henri Nouwen Journey Quotations

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

The more you are called to speak for God's love, the more you will need to deepen the knowledge of that love in your own heart. The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be. Only when your roots are deep can your fruits be abundant.

I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding...

The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.