Why pray? Because it helps us...

“People of prayer are, in the final analysis, people who are able to recognize in others the face of the Messiah. They are people who make visible what was hidden, who make touchable what was unreachable. People of prayer are leaders because precisely through their articulation of God’s work within themselves they can lead others away from confusion and toward clarification; through their compassion they can guide others out of the closed circuits of in-groups and toward the wider world of humanity; and through their critical contemplation they can convert convulsive destructiveness into creative work for the new world to come.”

​Henri Nouwen


Text excerpts taken from "You are the Beloved" by Henri J.M. Nouwen. © 2017 by The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust. Published by Convergent Books.