Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

The whole world is not worth one soul.

How precious are the souls of men!

To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap by others, and far worse, that in our innermost soul we think cheaply of ourselves.

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

I'm encouraging you to know what you're worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house - nobody is worth more than anybody else.

It is up to each of us to search for and build upon the gifts which God has given. We must remember that each of us is made in the image of God, that there are no unimportant persons. Everyone matters to God and to his fellowmen.

Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.

I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.

People have value and are important. Big or small they are important.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.