Quotes about Personal

Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him.

In other words, they had seen a lot. They had heard a lot. But they had not personally applied what they'd seen and heard. Their hearts were not tender to the reality of Jesus. Their hearts were hardened. Access without application will not equal transformation.

Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results, as if our relationship with God resembled putting coins in a vending machine. It is a personal relationship, and such relationships involve freedom on both sides. Joel

If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage.

I realize that many dear followers of Christ have been taught that God only speaks to his sons and daughters through the Bible. The irony of that theology is this: that's not what the Bible teaches! The Scriptures are filled with stories of God speaking to his people—intimately, personally.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

Faith in Jesus must be personal but it cannot be private.

Privatized faith in a resurrected Christ is practically inconceivable.

In the whole divine journey, no one else can walk your pathway. In the whole cosmic choir, no one else can sing your song.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.