Jean Vanier Children Quotations

When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

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.