Henri Nouwen Quotes

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

The best proof of love is trust.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

All love is lost but upon God alone.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

God to me is love.

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

How wonderful it would be if the love of God was our priority and the love of neighbour flowed from that.

Faith is pretty much the essence of mine and Grace's being.

'Illusion' is a story of God's love and our hunger to find him when we're separated from him. If I can paint a picture of two people still in love after 40 years, that's a pretty good message.

Quen kind of taught me what love is and what love should feel like and be like.