Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weakne… - Jean Vanier
Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weakne…
- Jean Vanier
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 are weak, … - Jean Vanier
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 are weak, …
To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance. - Jean Vanier
To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
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 has a hea… - Jean Vanier
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 has a hea…
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
A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes. - Jean Vanier
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gift… - Jean Vanier
Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gift…
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. - Jean Vanier
Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening. - Jean Vanier
Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.
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