In The Name Of Jesus

Some words from Henri Nouwen :

"The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation that allows them to enter into a deep solidarity with the anguish underlying all the glitter of success, and to bring the light of Jesus there." ~pg.35

"Knowing God's heart means consistently, radically, and very concretely to announce and reveal that God is love and only love, and that every time fear, isolation, or despair begins to invade the human soul, this is not something that comes from God." pg. 38

"The desire to be relevant and successfull will gradually disappear, and our only desire will be to say our whole being to our brothers and sisters of the human race, 'You are loved.'" pg.41

"A mystic is a person whose identity is deeply rooted in God's first love." pg. 42

"The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word, and to taste fully God's infinite goodness?" pg. 43

"To be such a leader, it is essential to be able to discern from moment to moment how God acts in human history and how the personal, communal, national, and international events that occur during our lives can make us more and more sensitive to the ways in which we are led to cross and through the cross to resurrection." ~pg.86-87

"The Christian leaders of tomorrow will have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time." ~pg.88

"Somehow I have to trust that God is at work in me and that the way I am being moved to new inner and outer places is part of a larger movement of which I am only a small part." ~pg.19