Quotes about Private
We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no history; only biography.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion may be a private affair, but the woik and word of God are the reconciliation of the world with God, as it was performed in Jesus Christ.
— Karl Barth
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.
— Huldrych Zwingli
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.
— Gordon Hinckley
The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.
— Muhammad Ali
A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.
— Bill Johnson
The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.
— Oswald Chambers
The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times
— Martin Luther
My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
— Oswald Chambers
The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
— Oswald Chambers