Nouwen Beloved Quotes

#1. Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

Henri Nouwen

#2. As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#3. Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

Virgil

#4. A man will only do what you allow him to do,

Kennedi Dior

#5. You're a writer," she said. "You get to live someone else's life every time you write a book. But I'm stuck with mine. It's lonely.

Ava Sinclair

#6. We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

Billy Corgan

#7. The farther I run away from the place where God dwells, the less I am able to hear the voice that calls me the Beloved, and the less I hear that voice, the more entangled I become in the manipulations and power games of the world.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#8. In Christ we live as God's beloved before we were born and after we have died; all the circumstances in between will not negate that. Jean

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#9. God loves us before any human person can show love to us. He loves us with a "first" love, an unlimited, unconditional love, wants us to be his beloved children, and tells us to become as loving as himself.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#10. will-o'-the-wisp

Amor Towles

#11. The Father's love does not force itself on the beloved.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#12. From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Henri Nouwen

#13. We are not what we do, we are not what we have, we are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#14. As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.

Henri Nouwen

#15. Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#16. I did try out for football and wrestling but they wouldn't let me on the teams because I had blue hair.

CM Punk

#17. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved.

Henri Nouwen

#18. I could see that it was God's forgiveness and His mercy that I needed, and that was provided through Christ on the Cross for those who will receive Him as Lord and Savior. That is how I came to Christ.

Kirk Cameron