• The Inner Voice of Love

  • A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
  • By: Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Narrated by: Murray Bodo O.F.M.
  • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (246 ratings)

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The Inner Voice of Love

By: Henri J. M. Nouwen
Narrated by: Murray Bodo O.F.M.
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"This book is my secret journal," Nouwen wrote. At first he had no intention of sharing this personal diary of the difficult months when he felt all meaning in his life was missing and all ahead seemed a dark, bottomless abyss. In spite of his inner turmoil, Nouwen recorded the descent into his heart in these 63 journal entries. Friends persuaded him that sharing his painful soul-searching might help others who also struggle to embrace life with joy.

Throughout his life, Nouwen longed for deeper relationships with others and with God. "Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply," he urges. While your heart may break, he says, you will then have a choice - to become bitter or to stand in your pain and become fruitful with God as the spiritual guide of your life. The inner voice is a voice of love.

©1996 The Estate of Henri J.M. Nouwen (P)2005 St. Anthony Messenger Press

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Life Changing

Paid forward in a big way! I never realized how much healing was right there in my pain. Thanks Nouwen - I am enlightened.

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touching, relational, affirming, validating

Henri nouwens journal entries continues to resound and reverberate in my spirit and mind. I have listened to it over and over and over again since I first heard the reading this week.

I have never in my life been so affected by a book. I have never before experienced someone tell their experience and it line up so completely with my own story. Its as if my conversations, journals, messages, and thoughts in the last few months, the products of my life so far, have all been collected and distilled and compiled and encapsulated into a small diary and reflected back to me in this account of being.

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Wonderful book full of spiritual insight!

Wonderful book full of spiritual insight! I am grateful to have encountered it! I love listening to it (on my third read); every chapter uplifts my heart in some way. A great read if your soul is experiencing darkness.

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So needed

I needed exactly what was in this book. Thank you for your service. It is amazing.

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Inspiring and good reminders for patience and courage

I recommend. Take time to read or listen and reflect. Never give up. Love is all around.

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These words heal yet let you feel. Thank you.

From the beginning I was not sure what I was going to hear. At the end I was sure this was what I needed and started it over.

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Catch those thoughts

Any thought that is not of Gods love for you needs to be caught and corrected.

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For those that dare this will change their life.

I love this book. So wonderful to find a soulmate that is found God's love, as God has revealed himself to me. I think our Lord and Savior for sending Henri to me.

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Very healing and a great quick read

Narrator was excellent as well, very healing and a great quick read. Will continue to reread and gain further fruit and benefit.

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Language to this journey

I am truly grateful to have herd this book. It was like a very close friend or a spiritual director speaking to me in this journey of transformation.

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