HOME POPULAR Love Life Inspiration Motivation Funny Friendship Family Faith Happy Hurt Sad Cute Success Wisdom ALL TOPICS Animals Art Attitude Beauty Business Birthdays Dreams Facts Fitness Food Forgiving Miss You Nature Peace Smile So True Sports Teenage Trust Movie TV Weddings More.. AUTHORS Einstein Plato Aristotle Twain Monroe Jefferson Wilde Carroll Confucius Hepburn Dalai Lama Lewis Lincoln Mandela Lao Tzu Ford More.. Affirmations Birthday Wishes
Follow On Pinterest
Advertisements

Jean Vanier Quotes

Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
1 2 3
Friendship Quotes Love Quotes Life Quotes Funny Quotes Motivational Quotes Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Going home’ is a journey to the heart of who we are, a place where we can be ourselves and welcome the reality of our beauty and our pain. From this acceptance of ourselves, we can accept others as they are and we can see our common humanity.  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness  (Jean Vanier Quotes) A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers  (Jean Vanier Quotes) A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly  (Jean Vanier Quotes) I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: ‘Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?  (Jean Vanier Quotes) 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 is not a fixed state, it is an  (Jean Vanier Quotes) 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 young people are in despair because of the danger  (Jean Vanier Quotes) People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition  (Jean Vanier Quotes) One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Love doesn’t mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.  (Jean Vanier Quotes) 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 to listen to each other’s stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening  (Jean Vanier Quotes) The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Love is an act of endless forgiveness  (Jean Vanier Quotes) We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love  (Jean Vanier Quotes) To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness  (Jean Vanier Quotes) The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish  (Jean Vanier Quotes) We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most  (Jean Vanier Quotes) 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 to share  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us  (Jean Vanier Quotes) Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate  (Jean Vanier Quotes) In the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts  (Jean Vanier Quotes) 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 to listen to each other’s stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart  (Jean Vanier Quotes) 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 poor  (Jean Vanier Quotes) We don’t know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don’t know what to do with our own weakness except hide it or pretend it doesn’t exist. So how can we welcome fully the weakness of another if we haven’t welcomed our own weakness?  (Jean Vanier Quotes) The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life  (Jean Vanier Quotes) 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 truly become a place of celebration  (Jean Vanier Quotes)
1 2 3