source: - Jean Vanier (2010). “Living Gently in a Violent World (Large Print 16pt)”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com
Topics: Love, Mean, Knowing, Ordinary Things
To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
source: - Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.19, Paulist Press
Topics: Love, Importance, Shows
source: - Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.26, Paulist Press
Topics: Heart, Understanding, Humanity, Inclusion
Topics: Children, Hero, Secret, Secret Desire
source: - "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.
Topics: People, Community, Way, Marvelous Things, Marvelous
source: - Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.45, Paulist Press
Topics: People, Profound, Lessons, People With Disabilities
Topics: Wall, People, Love And Respect, Respect People
source: - Jean Vanier (2008). “Man and Woman, God Made Them”, p.189, Paulist Press
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Topics: Ignorance, People, Envy, Envy Me, Envy And Success
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.
Topics: Hate, Light, Darkness, Fear Of Love
Topics: Christian, Brother, Jesus, Christian Community, Brother Love
Topics: Lonely, Pain, Loneliness, Unwanted, Being Unloved
Topics: Real, Believe, Understanding, Acts Of Violence
Topics: Fighting, Love Is, Opposites, Materialistic World
Topics: Judging, Missing, Comforting
Topics: Pain, Past, Love Is, Being Accepted
Topics: Believe, Joy, Our Society
source: - Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.185, Paulist Press
Topics: Quality, Weakness, Difficulty
Topics: Responsibility, Healing, Self Confidence
Topics: Teaching, Psychology, Flow
Topics: Heart, Festivals, Celebration, Excluded
Topics: Dog, Taken, Compassion, Jealously
Topics: Truth, Fall, Thinking, Truth And Love
source: - Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.35, Paulist Press
Topics: Community, Majority, Transition
Topics: Mean, Caring, People, Bonhoeffer
Topics: Community, Born, Dialogue, True Peace
Topics: Heart, Loving Life, Light, Material Wealth, Luxurious
Topics: Forgiveness, Wall, Creating
Topics: Prayer, Community, Listening, Silent Prayer
source: - Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.35, Paulist Press
Topics: Identity, Want, Who We Are
Topics: Loneliness, Way, Fleeing, Mysterious Ways
Topics: Who We Are, Moments, Moments In Our Lives
Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
source: - "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.
Topics: Forgiveness, Love Is, Endless
Topics: Powerful, Clever, Thinking, Political Groups
Topics: Loneliness, People, Community
Topics: People, Community, May, Our Community
Topics: Community, Insecurity, Dying
Topics: Grace, Signals, Difficulty
Topics: Pain, Compassion, Our World, Marginalized, Mad World
Topics: Spirituality, Grows, Humans
source: - Jean Vanier (2013). “The Heart of L'Arche: A spirituality for every day”, p.33, SPCK
Topics: Heart, Culture Religion, Capacity To Love
Topics: Beautiful, Attitude, Important, You Are Beautiful, Beautiful You
Topics: Pain, Father, Believe, Prodigal Son
Topics: Responsibility, Exercise, People
source: - Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.190, Paulist Press
Topics: Prayer, Garden, Doors, Secret Garden
Love is to recognize that the other person is a person, is precious, is important and has value.
source: - "Google This: Jean Vanier and What It Means to Be Human" by David Briggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 02, 2015.
Topics: Pain, Home, Heart, Going Home
There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.
source: - Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.22, Paulist Press
Topics: Jesus, Humble, Compassion
Topics: Loneliness, Desire, Fundamentals, Quench
Topics: Pain, Humble, Responsibility, Poorest, Prophetic
source: - Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.57, Paulist Press
If we love (the poor) people, we want to identify with them and share with them.
Topics: People, Want, Poor, Material Wealth