Quotes about Persons
The fear of man is no respecter of persons. It might be called codependency by adults, peer pressure with teens, and shyness with children, but whatever it is called, it all betrays the same idolatrous heart.
— Edward Welch
Objection 1: It would seem that there are more than three persons in God. For the plurality of persons in God arises from the plurality of the relative properties as stated above (A[1]). But there are four relations in God as stated above (Q[28], A[4]), paternity, filiation, common spiration, and procession. Therefore there are four persons in God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A prayerful life, then, is one in which we convert the world from darkness, people from mere roles to persons.
— Henri Nouwen
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
From the Israelites’ half, Moses took one out of every fifty persons and animals and gave them to the Levites who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD had commanded him.
— Numbers 31:47
In the opinion of those delicate-eared persons, nothing could be more bitter or intemperate than Paul's language.
— Martin Luther
For there is no respect of persons with God.
— Anonymous
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects
— Martin Luther
God as a Trinity of persons, available at cacradicalgrace.org.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The most real human persons are saints. They are what we are all designed to be.
— Peter Kreeft
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
— John Piper
John Henry Newman views the visible world as a veil "so that all that exists or happens visibly, conceals and yet suggests, and above all serves, a greater system of persons, facts and events beyond itself."
— Henri Nouwen