Quotes about Persons

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."

A prayerful life, then, is one in which we convert the world from darkness, people from mere roles to persons.

Truly, God is "no respecter" of persons or He would not have saved me.

Do you know, I envy you that,' Sir James said, as they continued walking at the rather brisk pace set by Dorothea. 'I don't quite understand what you mean.' 'Your power of forming an opinion. I can form an opinion of persons. I know when I like people. But about other matters, do you know, I have often a difficulty in deciding. One hears very sensible things said on opposite sides.

Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.

To give organisations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

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.

God as a Trinity of persons, available at cacradicalgrace.org.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.