Quotes about Personhood
When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
- Brennan Manning
What makes a human being human? When does a human being become a person? When does a human being cease to be a person? What is the significance of being human? Is there an inherent value with inherent rights that go along with being human? These
- Gregory Boyd
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
- Pope John Paul II
It is people who are important, not the masses.
- Dorothy Day
Holiness has to do with who we are in God, where we abide as a "self" with an utterly reconstituted sense of our own personhood.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
God never asks us to annihilate the self. We are not to become "non-persons" when we become Christians. The very opposite is true. God intends our deeper, truer self, which he created, to blossom as we follow him.
- Peter Scazzero
Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons.
- Pope John Paul II
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
- Thomas Merton
God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.
- Desmond Tutu