The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom - Softcover

Nouwen, Henri J. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0232530785 ISBN 13: 9780232530780

Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Inner Voice of Love

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Review

The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom is a collection of passages from Henri Nouwen's journals, written during a period when his self-esteem evaporated, his energy to work disappeared, and God seemed entirely unreal. This is not a book to be read straight through: each short chapter takes time to digest, because, like the following passage, each of Nouwen's thoughts has the raw complexity of real honesty:

Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.

--Michael Joseph Gross

From the Author

There are many Henri Nouwen books.  For all those who ask, "Where should I start?" the answer is here.  For all those who wonder, who wander, who hurt and who need, this book is an answer, a guide, a helper and friend.

You will find bits of this book pasted in anthologies and here and there and everywhere.  Never mind those. The Inner Voice of Love is classic Nouwen.  This is Nouwen at the apex of his writing talent.  You must read the whole.  Let it touch you.  Let it heal you.  Keep it at your bedside.  Own it and let these marvelous words begin to own you.

-- The Henri Nouwen Legacy Trust

Edition details

• Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0232530785
• ISBN 13: 9780232530780
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 112