"One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals."

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

Jean Vanier

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Way Quotes

“If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.”
“The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.”
“I've been trying to redefine fragrance since I was a child - before I was ten. Throughout my life, certain fragrance notes have captured my imagination - especially liquorice, violet and anise, flooding back into my consciousness.”
“It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.”
“Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself.”
“Assured of your salvation by the unique grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" is the heartbeat of the gospel, joyful liberation from fear of the Final Outcome, a summons to self-acceptance, and freedom for a life of compassion toward others.”
“To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.”
“Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.”

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