Jean Vanier Quotes

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• Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each one receives. Communion…
• So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many…
• So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and…
• Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is…
• Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
• He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
• The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.
• Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
• Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters in need. Ask how you…
• I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they…
• In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture…
• We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they are incapable of…
• It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it is people who…
• Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and…
• The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong
• The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope and life and…
• When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will…
• People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.
• People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are…
• Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin…

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