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

To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.

- Jean Vanier

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- Jean Vanier

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

- Jean Vanier

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

- Jean Vanier