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Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.
— Mae West
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.
— CS Lewis
I don't know if the term 'liberation theology,' which can be interpreted in a very positive sense, will help us much. What's important is the common rationality to which the church offers a fundamental contribution, and which must always help in the education of conscience, both for public and for private life.
— Pope Benedict XVI
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.
— Oswald Chambers
When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel.
— Mark Driscoll
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
— John Perkins
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.
— Robert Brault
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
— Thomas Jefferson
There is a direct correlation between a person's private devotional life and his or her personal faith. And regardless of how long you've been in ministry, this is something you can't afford to lose sight of. When God speaks to us personally through his Word or answers a specific prayer, our faith is strengthened.
— Andy Stanley
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
— Timothy Keller
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.
— Oswald Chambers