Jean Vanier Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

  Jean Vanier

  Love Yourself, Learning, Acceptance

• I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

  Jean Vanier

  Quality, Weakness, Difficulty

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.185, Paulist Press

• Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed.

  Jean Vanier

  Children, Self, Broken

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.26, Paulist Press

• We don’t know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don’t know what to do with our own weakness except hide it or pretend it doesn’t exist. So how can we welcome fully the weakness of another if we haven’t welcomed our own weakness?

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Weakness, Welcome

  "The Wisdom of Tenderness". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 28, 2015.

• But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Our World, Sight

  Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.163, Paulist Press

• We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

  Jean Vanier

  Clever, Powerful, Thinking

  Jean Vanier (2003). “Finding Peace”, p.53, A&C Black

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