Quotes about Preferences

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.

Which of my convictions have more to do with my own personal preferences than with God's revelation?

Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover's besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls 'the mad pride of intellectuality,' taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

Conformity to the will of God, submission, docility to the leadings of the Holy Ghost in practice, if not verbally, these are the same as conformity to the Perfect Way, refusing to have preferences and cherish opinions, keeping the eyes open so that dreams may cease and Truth reveal itself.

Being missional means moving intentionally beyond our church preferences, making missional decisions rather than preferential decisions.

I love science fiction, but I have a hard time feeling for characters in a galaxy far away. Choosing movies is the one thing in my life where there's no compromising.