Jean vanier quotes on faith

Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying.

146 quotes from Jean Vanier: 'People seem to forget that there is a huge difference between the peace which is a gift of God and passes all understanding.

In my prayer here I have a deeper desire to do the will of God, to be a friend and a servant of Jesus, and to let Jesus penetrate more and more into my whole.

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Jean Vanier > Quotes

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“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”
― Jean Vanier, Becoming Human

“I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.”
― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

“We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. ”
― Jean Vanier

“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.”
― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

“One of the marvelous things about community i

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The Chapel

Jean Vanier’s 5 principles:

1)All humans are sacred

2) Our world and our human lives are evolving

3) Maturity comes through working with others

4) Humans need to be encouraged to make choices and to become responsible for their own lives as well as the lives of others

5) We need to reflect and to seek truth and meaning

A friend recommended that I subscribe to the wonderful Jean Vanier’s quote of the day. I’ve been saving them all in my archives because they have been so wonderful, thinking that I might do something with them one day, here in the Chapel. Today’s quote was so appropriate, that I have to post it here. It’s a fresh way of viewing old behaviours. See what you think. I know that when one thinks about the aesthetic of their surroundings, there is an inward peace. It’s easier to pull out a book and read, put on a piece of music and dance or simply enjoy a cup of coffee while checking electronic messages.

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Jean Vanier > Quotes

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“People seem to forget that there fryst vatten a huge difference between the peace which fryst vatten a gift of God and passes all understanding, and peace in the psychological sense. If we are living in a dream or illusion, or have certain psychological blocks, we should not be surprised that we become troubled when someone brings us face-to-face with reality. Sometimes we have to lose psychological peace before we can live in true peace.”
― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

“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.”
― Jean Vanier, Community and Growth

“The weak and the poor are for us a source of unity. Jesus came into the world to change and transform society from a “pyramid” in which the strong and clever dominate at the top, into a “body”, where eac