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Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent QUOTES

Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent QUOTES

1 " But mortification - literally, "making death" - is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created so that we can appreciate its beauty without clinging to it as if it were a lasting possession. Our lives can indeed be seen as a process of becoming familiar with death, as a school in the art of dying . . . all these times have passed by like friendly visitors, leaving you with dear memories but also with the sad recognition of the shortness of life. In every arrival there is a leave-taking; in every reunion there is a separation; in each one's growing up there is a growing old; in every smile there is a tear; and in every success there is a loss. All living is dying and all celebration is mortification too. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

2 " For a Christian is only a Christian when he unceasingly asks critical questions of the society in which he lives and continuously stresses the necessity for conversion, not only of the individual but also of the world. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

3 " It is through the way of the cross that Jesus gives glory to God, receives glory from God, and makes God’s glory known to us. The glory of the resurrection can never be separated from the glory of the cross. The risen Lord always shows us his wounds. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

4 " the celebration of the resurrection of the body is also the celebration of the daily care given to the bodies of these handicapped men and women. Washing and feeding, pushing wheelchairs, carrying, kissing, and caressing— these are all ways in which these broken bodies are made ready for the moment of a new life. Not only their wounds but also the care given them will remain visible in the resurrection. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

5 " The body is not a prison to escape from, but a temple in which God already dwells, and in which God’s glory will be fully manifested on the day of the resurrection. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

6 " Our lives can indeed be seen as a process of becoming familiar with death, as a school in the art of dying. I do not mean this in a morbid way. On the contrary, when we see life constantly relativized by death, we can enjoy it for what it is: a free gift. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

7 " In every arrival there is a leave-taking; in every reunion there is a separation; in each one’s growing up there is a growing old; in every smile there is a tear; and in every success there is a loss. All living is dying, and all celebration is mortification too. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

8 " I’ve yet to meet anyone who has come closer to Jesus by forsaking the church. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent

9 " Every time we celebrate the Eucharist and receive the bread and wine, the body and blood of Jesus, his suffering and his death become a suffering and death for us. Passion becomes compassion, for us. We are incorporated into Jesus. We become part of his “body” and in that most compassionate way are freed from our deepest solitude. Through the Eucharist we come to belong to Jesus in the most intimate way, to him who has suffered for us, died for us, and rose again so that we may suffer, die, and rise again with him. "

― Henri J.M. Nouwen , Show Me The Way: Readings for Each Day of Lent