Quotes about Personal

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.

We must warn against an incorrect conception of theology, a conception which considers it possible to discuss Holy Scripture apart from a personal relationship of belief in it, as though that alone would constitute true 'objectivity'.

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.

Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.

I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.

Being in proximity makes a difference. Relationships make issues real and complicated and personal. Relationships move us from ideology to compassion. We can't love our neighbor if we don't know them. And once we are proximate, love requires us to take action, to stand up for life in tangible ways.

They kept their secret from the knowledge of others, not as a shameful guilt, but as a thing that was immaculately theirs, beyond anyone's right of debate or appraisal.

I noticed that my mother paid for her intellectual freedom with chronic financial struggles and occasional personal chaos

What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it.