Rick Yancey Quotes

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

It is people who are important, not the masses.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

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

Everybody's life matters.

With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.

We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.

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.

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.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

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.

I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.

My politics, and my religion as well, are based entirely on the loveliness and value of ordinary human lives. The creaky apparatus called politics shelters or oppresses or threatens these lives, and is therefore of interest.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

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.

No human on God's earth is a nobody.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

America should stand for more than just wealth.

I believe that the core battle of our day is the battle to defend the inherent dignity of each and every person, the inherent beauty of each and every soul to be respected and treated as beautiful, unique, and sacred child of a loving God. No matter where they are, no matter what they look like, no matter what their status, each is noble and should be treated as such. The beauty of the individual is truth and we know it in our hearts.

People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine.