“To me he seems a bit like John the Baptist, who said, pointing to Jesus, ‘I am not the Messiah, it’s him.’ Jean Vanier, who is often presented as a prophet, looks at the poor and says, ‘These are the prophets of our time.’”

Gilles BEAUCHEMIN, Penseurs et Apôtres du XXe siècle, édité par Jean GENEST, Fidès, 2001, p.263 [Translation]