Quotes about Individual
Monasticism was represented as an individual achievement which the mass of the laity could not be expected to emulate. By thus limiting the application of the commandments of Jesus to a restricted group of specialists.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Even the most personal prayer no longer belongs to the individual, but to the church that gave birth to this person and through which this individual lives.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.
— Barack Obama
Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
— Ernest Hemingway
Learning's purest form," Jones replied, "is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom—genuine truth—holds the key to refining one's thinking.
— Andy Andrews
We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
— Carl Jung
After all, he is the great evangelist; we're merely the tools that he uses to fulfill his mission of redeeming the world, one individual at a time.
— Lee Strobel
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual.… For it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. —M. SCOTT PECK Women
— Lisa Bevere
There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.
— Frank Peretti
Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
— Mary Catherine Bateson