Catholic quotations from the Church Doctors, Church Fathers and all the great Catholic minds.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
QUOTATION: What does immortality have to do with the State?
If individuals live only seventy years, then a state, or a nation, or a civilisation, which may last for a thousand years, is more important than an individual. But if Christianity is true, then the individual is not only more important but incomparably more important, for he is everlasting and the life of a state or a civilisation, compared with his, is only a moment.
