"When we judge, we are pushing people away;……" — Jean Vanier
"When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others."
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80 Quotes by Jean Vanier
Jean Vanier has 80 quotes on this site.
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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…
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the…
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So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite…
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Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren…
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
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He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.
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The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts…
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Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
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Stop looking for peace. Give yourselves where you are. Stop looking at yourselves, look instead at your brothers and sisters…
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I remember that throughout history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers…
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In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each…
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We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel…
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More Barrier Quotes
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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing…
— Eli Broad
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I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on…
— Alton Brown
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
— Rajneesh
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Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it…
— Unknown Author
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We…
— Brian Day
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What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words,…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire…
— Jean de Joinville
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as…
— Margaret Fuller
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You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and…
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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Independent media can go to where the silence is and break the sound barrier, doing what the corporate networks refuse…
— Amy Goodman
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be…
— Rajneesh
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my…
— C.S. Lewis
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