Lytton Strachey Quotes

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

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worthy of every consideration.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

Human lives are human lives.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

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

It is people who are important, not the masses.

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.

No one's more important than people.

The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

The whole world is not worth one soul.

Nobody is just anything... everyone is of equal value, regardless of their station

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.

. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?

The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art.

Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

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.

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

Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.