The Value of the Person

"....The whole world is not as worthy as the most insignificant human person. Nothing in the entire universe can compare with a person, from the first instant of his conception until the last step of his decrepit old age. Every person possesses within himself a principle by which he depends on no one, a foundation of inalienable rights, a font of values....

     Christian religiosity  does not spring from a taste for philosophy, but from the dogged insistence of Jesus Christ, who saw in that unique relationship with God the only possibility of safeguarding the value of he individual. Christian religiosity arises as the one and only condition for being human. This is man's choice: either he conceives himself free from the whole universe and dependent only on God, or free from God and therefore the slave of every circumstance..."

At the Origin of the Christian Claim, Luigi Giussani, pp.84, 86