Quotes about Person
deconstructing a person is easier than constructing one.
— Philip Yancey
We are never intended by God to stop short at an experience, a doctrine, a revelation, or a blessing. Thank God for every one of those things that we receive, but we cannot rest in them. Each one of them, in a sense, is somewhat impersonal and impermanent. What we need, in the last resort, is a person. And every true doctrine or revelation we receive will always lead us in the end to the person of God Himself.
— Derek Prince
We shall never have vital contact with Jesus if we attend to His person and neglect the message; for it is the message which makes Him ours.
— J. Gresham Machen
The ultimate expression of truth appeared on this earth in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Joel Beeke
Love is the bottom line in our relationship with the Lord—not love of principles or teachings but love for the Person of Jesus Christ.
— John Bevere
Happy and blessed is the person who knows their gifts and operates in them. Miserable and stressed is the person who tries to operate in someone else's gifts.
— John Bevere
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.
— John Maxwell
If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.
— John Maxwell
To commune with God in prayer, in the Bible, and in the assembly of His people will be the holy person's main enjoyments. He will value every place and thing and company in proportion to how they draw him nearer to God. He will enter into something
— JC Ryle
Nothing, surely, is so likely to prepare us for that heaven where Christ's personal presence will be all, and that glory where we shall meet Christ face to face, as to realize communion with Christ, as an actual living Person here on earth. There is all the difference in the world between an idea and a person.
— JC Ryle
You learn a great deal about the true nature of a person in the way they love, why they love, and, in what they love.
— John Eldredge
To find God, you must look with all your heart. To remain present to God, you must remain present to your heart. To hear his voice, you must listen with your heart. To love him, you must love with all your heart. You cannot be the person God meant you to be, and you cannot live the life he meant you to live, unless you live from the heart.
— John Eldredge