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Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Donne, ...
Orbis Books, 2004
Loved it!!
I love that this series, including "Bread and Wine:Readings for Lent and Easter," because it challeneges our complacent culture-dictated experience of Advent and Easter. This is not a feel-good book, it is a faith-building book. Be prepared to be shaken up and for God ...
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Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith
Henri J. M. Nouwen
HarperOne, 2006
Awesome book
This book is superb for anyone looking to deepen his or her relationship with God!
P.S. Read From acknowledgements all the way through or you may miss some insight.
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The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Image Books / Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994
Returning
I first read this book when given to me by our pediatrician. I was deeply touched by the way in which Nouwen guides us to a deepr look into the painting and ourselves. As the leader for the Sunday Adult Book Study I chose this book to start off our fall classes. It ...
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The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows And Blessings into One Joyful Step
Henri J. M. Nouwen, Michael Ford
Ave Maria Press, 2006
Life-Changing
This book changed my life. I was so engrossed that I read it in the course of one very intense day - a day filled with insights, with a sense of wonder and beauty and of God's all-sustaining love. It is a book that I will keep returning to for many years.
This is ...
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Can You Drink the Cup?
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Ave Maria Press, 2006
Can you Drink the Cup
This was the best book I have read by Henri Nouwen. It is a book every Christian should read and ask the question "Can I Drink the Cup?"
I will read and reread this book and mail several to my family and friends.
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The Only Necessary Thing: Living a Prayerful Life
Henri J. M. Nouwen
The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2008
Well appreciated
As an avid reader of Henri Nouwen, I appreciate the care and integrity used in this compilation. I feel it gets at the sense of who Nouwen was and the sense of his spiritual journey. His compassion and humility shine through.
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The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Image Books, 1998
Will Use book For PTSD Veterans
An author friend of mine sent me a copy of this book a couple of days ago - she thought it might be of some use in my life or if not mine then I would know someone who might get something from Nouwen's words. Both cases proved true - as with any book that looks inward ...
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The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry
Henri J. M. Nouwen
HarperOne, 1991
Excellent read, great book
Short, simple, easy to read in the typical Nouwen fashion, and yet when you are finished, you can not help but feel refreshed, energized, and re-awakened to that "tiny whispering sound" referred to in 1 Kings 19:12. This is an excellent book about the heart of prayer: ...
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Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Image, 1986
Reaching Into My Loneliness...
I've been reading Henri Nouwen's Reaching Out over the last week or so and it's been impacting me deeply.
I feel like I have been lonely for as long as I can remember. There have been moments thick with the physical presence of friends & family. And there were ...
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The Way of the Heart
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Ballantine Books, 2003
The Way of the Heart
The book is very inspiring and useful especially to those who are at the crossroads of their lives. It's a life-giving book and brings you closer to God. In fact, a friend who's in her challenging stage in her life is using this book.
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Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
Henri J. M. Nouwen
HarperOne, 1996
"our" Daily Bread - feasting with Henri Nouwen as assistant chef
INTRODUCTION:
From the St. Matthew Gospel (4,4): "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' "
These were the words of our Lord and Savior Jesus quoting Holy Scripture in Deuteronomy 8:3 showing the ...
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The Selfless Way of Christ: Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Orbis Books, 2007
Un-ambition
First published in 1981 as a series of articles in "Sojourners" magazine, The Selfless Way of Christ is Henri Nouwen at his best. Although the themes won't be unfamiliar to readers of his books, his presentation of them here is succinct and eloquent. The van Gogh ...
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Adam: God's Beloved
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Orbis Books, 1997
Book was Great
This book was recommended by a neighborhood childhood friend who I greatly respect, and I ended up greatly respecting this book. It's a deeply moving account of what it is like to live day by day with a severely disabled man named Adam. In Adam, the priest, Henri ...
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With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Orbis Books, 2003
A Walk Down the Road With the Gentlest of Writers
Henri Nouwen explains the Lord's Supper in the context of the two disciples' walk with Jesus down the road to Emmaus at the end of Luke's gospel. He sees five interrelating movements in the celebration of the Lord's Supper, each movement corresponding to an event ...
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Gratefulness, The Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness
David Steindl-Rast, Henri J. M. Nouwen
Paulist Press, 1984
I'm very grateful for this book...
You can tell from reading this book that the author is gentle and sincere, and that his life reflects the values and insights he shares here. I first read this book around 1994, and it is the most dog-eared of my books. I have almost the whole thing underlined. By ...
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