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"40 Jean Vanier Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 10 September 1928. Died: 7 May 2019 | Philosopher | Theologian |

Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite

Community Love People Ignore
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We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Called God Extraordinary Love
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Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

People Talking Community Live
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Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
Growth Begins Accept Weakness
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If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Grow Love Egoism Choices
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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.

Christian Community Jesus Love
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When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

Love Respect People Value
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People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

People Evil Love Trusted
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It is only when we stand up, with all our failings and sufferings, and try to support others rather than withdraw into ourselves, that we can fully live the life of community.

Failings Sufferings Life Community
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When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

Children Live Hearts Respect
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Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Human activity Service Love Gift
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Weakness, recognized, accepted, and offered, is at the heart of belonging, so it is at the heart of communion with another.

Weakness Heart Communion
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That is the fundamental question; how to trust that she has a heart and that she can, little by little, receive love, be transformed by love, and then give love.

Question Trust Heart Love
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To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.
Love Beauty Worth Importance
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Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

Love Heroic Ordinary Tenderness
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All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

Secret Desire Afraid Children
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Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

Envy People's Ignorance Gifts
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Every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood.

Act Violence Message Understood
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True peace can rarely be imposed from the outside; it must be born within and between communities through meetings and dialogue and then carried outward.

Peace Imposed Born Dialogue
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Our humanity is so beautiful, but it needs to be transformed

Humanity Beautiful Needs Transformed
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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 it and cherishes it.

Friend Time Fight Cherishes
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The word love has been so abused by publicity and advertisements that we no longer know really what it means.

Word Love Abused Publicity
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Weakness, recognized, accepted, and offered, is at the heart of belonging, so it is at the heart of communion with another

Weakness Accepted Heart Communion
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An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.

Ethics Desire Good news Law
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We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Work Peace Wisdom Love
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At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If they are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

Heart Celebration Poor Festival
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Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life

Poverty Afraid Love Life
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Happiness comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives
Happiness Choose Moment Love
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I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes

Weakness Sharing Qualities Successes
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The language of elitism smells bad! It is not healthy to believe that we are the only ones to have captured truth and even less healthy to condemn others.

Language Elitism Believe Truth
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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 heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Person Culture Heart Love
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Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

Wisdom Something Little Listening
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Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

Human Light Trust Love
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The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong

Strong Need Weak
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The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

Laugh Best Evacuate Anguish
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He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED.

Deeply Hurt Right Loved
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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.

Judge People Forgive Barriers
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Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want

Life Crises Moments Want
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness.
Love Act Forgiveness
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Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right

Power Direction Weak Confused
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Jean Vanier Quotes & Sayings