Listen To The Voice Of Love – Henri Nouwen

As a reaction to a very aggressive, manipulative, and often degrading type of evangelization, we sometimes have become hesitant to make our own religious convictions known, thereby losing our sense of witness. Although at times it seems better to deepen our own commitments than to evangelize others, it belongs to the core of Christian spirituality to reach out to the other with good news, and to speak without embarrassment about  what we “have heard and … seen with our own eyes…. Watched and touched with our hands”(1 John 1:1). — Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life