One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Many people confuse authority and the power of efficiency, as if the first role of people with responsibility is to take decisions,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches will start… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
To be free is to put justice, truth and service to others over and above our personal gain or our need for recognition, power,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Sympathies and antipathies . . . Human friendships can very quickly become a club of mediocrities, enclosed in mutual flattery and approval, preventing people… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings,… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
![“The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be…” quote by Jean Vanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08b/jean-vanier-3367_clarity_the-people-with-the-best-sense-of-what-i_303228.jpg)
