Turn My Mourning Into Dancing Quotes

“Faith asks us to jump, to surrender and believe that somewhere, somehow, Someone will catch us and bring us home.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times

“When our love grows from God's love we no longer divide people into those who deserve it and those who don't. It is this love that allows us to see the enemy as someone loved with the same love with which we are loved.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Turn My Mourning Into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times

“Typically we see such hardship as an obstacle to what we think we should be—healthy, good-looking, free of discomfort. We consider suffering as annoying at best, meaningless at worst. We strive to get rid of our pains in whatever way we can. A part of us prefers the illusion that our losses are not real, that they come only as temporary interruptions. We thereby expend much energy in denial. “They should not prevent us from holding on to the real thing,” we say to ourselves.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times

“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, Turn My Mourning into Dancing: Finding Hope in Hard Times