Quotes about Preferences

Christians have a way of crouching in their own culture instead of penetrating the one they live in with the gospel. Too many migrate to a faith that elevates issue debate and substitutes a set of personal preferences for the glorious gospel.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

Opinions are preferences amid options. Convictions are woven into one's conscience.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.

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