Quotes about Personal

On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition as bad manners.

Guess what? Your god is you. You just made him up. Your god is fake, because you can't edit out the parts of the Bible you don't like. If you treat the Word of God like a buffet line and say, "I will take this aspect of God, but I don't like that one," then you will end up with a god of your own making. It won't be the God of the Bible. And that god of yours won't be able to save you in the final day, because it isn't real.

From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea . . . maybe . . . but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

Still he was ambitious. He had taken to writing stories; curious, very personal stories about people he had known. Clever, rather spiteful, and yet, in some mysterious way, meaningless. The observation was extraordinary and peculiar. But there was no touch, no actual contact. It was as if the whole thing took place in a vacuum. And since the field of life is largely an artificially-lighted stage today, the stories were curiously true to modern life, to the modern psychology, that is.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's life. If I have a bad attitude, then I need to say there's no point in me blaming you for what's wrong in my life.

observant but not compulsive" and the absence of a belief in a God who would punish us for disobedience would go on to become cornerstones of my personal and professional life.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.