“When our losses are pure fate, our gains are pure luck! Fate does not ...” — Henri Nouwen Quote

“When our losses are pure fate, our gains are pure luck! Fate does not lead to contrition, nor luck to gratitude.”

“To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.”

“The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.”

“One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.”

“Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.”

“Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.”

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

“In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.”

“And still, after all this time,”

“You cannot kill giants while running from rabbits.”

“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”

“No obstacle can dim the light of God’s purpose. When we help others see that, we lead them to their highest calling”