Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image;… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Have patience . . . We are not the masters of our own feelings of attraction or revulsion; these come from places… — 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
A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality. — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Flowing from this union, source of a plenitude of joy, the love of the couple reveals itself through the daily acceptance of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“If people in a community live only on the level of the human, rational, legalistic and active aspects and symbols of their… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“Have patience . . . It is difficult to get people to understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and… — 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
