Jean Vanier Quotes

I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.

As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

God's grace comes in all shapes, sizes, and circumstances as God continues to unfold something magnificent in me.

Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.