QUOTATION: God Loves Us Individually

God does not treat us as part of a collectivity. He knows each one by name. He calls each one personally.

--Pope Benedict XVI

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.

--C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

QUOTATION: Our Existence is Special

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.


-- Pope Benedict XVI