Quotes about Dignity
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. I, however, have limitations. In my desire to provide an ultimate protection for my people, I forbid a constitution.
— Frank Herbert
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty actions comprehensible to our finite minds.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment
— Malcolm X
Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
— Martin Luther
Yet even more than He made man and woman for the sake of work, He made work for the sake of man and woman— because only through work could they become truly godlike. It's
— Scott Hahn
Thus, the founder of Opus Dei, though he was a priest, did not seek to gather power to the clergy. In fact, he wanted the Catholic laity to discover their own dignity and assume the responsibilities that came with baptism.
— Scott Hahn
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
— John Calvin
We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.
— John Calvin
It teaches us not to regard others according to their own merits, but to consider in them the image of God to which we owe both honor and love.
— John Calvin
We should forever keep in mind that we must not brood on the wickedness of man, but realize that he is God's image bearer.
— John Calvin