“I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self.”

—  Henri Nouwen

In the Name of Jesus (1989)

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Dutch priest and writer 1932–1996

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