Jean Vanier Quotes

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of ...

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our li...

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behi...

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard w...

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...

To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts.

The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what ...

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because...

Flowing from this union, source of a plenitude of joy, the love of the couple reveals itself through...

I am convinced that in the present time, in spite of the difficulties man has to meet another in a s...

At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive...

Deep in our hearts there is a call to live in communion with others, a call to love, to create, to r...

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and truste...

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either igno...

A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and ab...

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a wa...

A community is only being created when its members accept that they are not going to achieve great t...

...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken...

When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our he...

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot bu...

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is ...

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, const...

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing o...

A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It ...

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will sha...

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our...

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our ...

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the...

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. H...

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesu...

Those who are weak have great difficulty finding their place in our society. The image of the ideal ...

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people ...

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.

Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary lo...

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

In community we are called to care for each member of the community. We can. Choose our friends but ...

Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.