Jean Vanier Quotes About Community

• 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, rejected, marginalized, counted as useless, who can become a source of life and of salvation for us as individuals as well as for our world. And it is my hope that each one of you may experience the incredible gift of the friendship of people who are poor and weak, that you too, may receive life from them. For they call us to love, to communion, to compassion and to community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Compassion, Our World

• A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

  Jean Vanier

  Community, Insecurity, Dying

• The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.

  Jean Vanier

  Brother, War, Community

• 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.

  Jean Vanier

  Cristiano, Jesús, Hermano

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.144, Paulist Press

• Una de las cosas maravillosas de la comunidad es que nos permite acoger y ayudar a la gente de una forma que no podríamos hacerlo individualmente. Cuando aunamos nuestras fuerzas y compartimos el trabajo y la responsabilidad, podemos acoger a muchas personas, incluso a las que se encuentran en una situación de profunda angustia, y tal vez ayudarles a encontrar la confianza en sí mismas y la curación interior.

  Jean Vanier

  Healing, Responsibility, Self Confidence

  "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

• ...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken over from the sense of fellowship, compassion and community. Now people live more or less on their own in a small house, jealously guarding their goods and planning to acquire more, with a notice on the gate that says, 'Beware of the Dog.

  Jean Vanier

  Dog, Taken, Compassion

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.16, Paulist Press

• Una de las cosas maravillosas de la comunidad es que nos permite acoger y ayudar a la gente de una forma que no podríamos hacerlo como individuos.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Community, Way

  "The Healing of Community" by Jean-Paul Bedard, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

• Sólo cuando nos levantamos, con todos nuestros defectos y sufrimientos, y tratamos de apoyar a los demás en lugar de encerrarnos en nosotros mismos, podemos vivir plenamente la vida de comunidad.

  Jean Vanier

  Live Life, Support, Community

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.330, Paulist Press

• 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 gifts, not as we want them to be.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Community, Want

  Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.35, Paulist Press

• Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

  Jean Vanier

  Mean, Caring, People

  Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.35, Paulist Press

• 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.

  Jean Vanier

  Fighting, Love Is, Opposites

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.310, Paulist Press

• Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

  Jean Vanier

  Moving, People, Community

• People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

  Jean Vanier

  Soledad, Personas, Comunidad

• 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

  Talking, People, Community

  "Community And Growth". Book by Jean Vanier, 1979.

• When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Loving Life, Light

  "A L’Arche Serving of Love in Kolkata" by Rumni Saha, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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

  Jean Vanier

  Exercise, Community, Divine

• A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to grow in love. A community is alive when it is poor and its members feel they have to work together and remain united, if only to ensure that they can all eat tomorrow!

  Jean Vanier

  Community, Working Together, Dying

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.119, Paulist Press

• Una comunidad en crecimiento debe integrar tres elementos: una vida de oración silenciosa, una vida de servicio y sobre todo de escucha de los pobres, y una vida comunitaria a través de la cual todos sus miembros puedan crecer en su propio don.

  Jean Vanier

  Prayer, Community, Listening

• 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.

  Jean Vanier

  Community, Born, Dialogue

  Jean Vanier (2003). “Finding Peace”, p.16, A&C Black

• So we need places, laboratories, the creation of places which could be each one of our homes, where we invite people who are different, and we listen to each other, people of different class groups.

  Jean Vanier

  Home, Class, People

• In any case, community is not about perfect people. It is about people who are bonded to each other, each of whom is a mixture of good and bad, darkness and light, love and hate.

  Jean Vanier

  Hate, Light, People

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.42, Paulist Press

• The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Humble, Responsibility

• Machines help us do things more quickly and efficiently, but they can also destroy some community activities. Machines can also throw the weakest people out of work and this would be sad, because their small contribution to the housework or cooking is their way of giving something to the community. People who are capable of doing things very quickly with the help of machines become tremendously busy, always active, in charge of everyone - a bit like machines themselves.

  Jean Vanier

  Personas, Donación, Comunidad

• People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

  Jean Vanier

  People, Community, May

  Jean Vanier (1992). “From Brokenness to Community”, p.20, Paulist Press

• So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

  Jean Vanier

  War, Our World, People

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.177, Paulist Press

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