Quotes by : Jean Vanier

The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He....

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others.....

We discover that we are at the same time very insignificant and very important, because each of our actions....

Those who are weak have great difficulty finding their place in our society. The image of the ideal human....

A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the....

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.....

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

At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive....

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because....

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