Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is.. One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation.. Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a "stranger" in a random universe.. The human being develops when. . his soul comes to know itself and the truths that God has implanted deep within, when he enters into dialogue with himself and his Creator.. It is not by isolation that man establishes his worth, but by placing himself in relation with others and with God. Pope Benedict XVI
About This Quote

This quote is by Fr. John Hardon, S.J., who was a Jesuit priest and the founder of the Community of St. John XXIII, an outgrowth of the Poor Clare Sisters. He believed that to be truly human, man must respond to God's love.

If man rejects God, he rejects himself and his place in the world. God gave man reason to discover his true nature and place in the world; but man fails to do so because he denies that reason is divinely given.

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