Jean Vanier Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Love Is, Class

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.312, Paulist Press

• It is difficult to make people understand that the ideal doesn't exist, that personal equilibrium and the harmony they dream of come only after years and years of struggle, and that even then they come only as flashes of grace and peace.

  Jean Vanier

  Dream, Struggle, Years

• Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces of darkness. It is not an easy struggle, but it is worthwhile.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Fighting, Light

  Jean Vanier (2001). “Seeing Beyond Depression”, p.57, Paulist Press

• There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Heart, Dark

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