Quotes about Personal

Faith always comes to the surface and always produces action. It cannot be contained. Thoughts and intents that are held within and not acted upon are not faith, no matter what we like to say. ("My faith is personal" is a favorite. But that is a self-contradicting statement. Faith is always acted out, never kept bottled up within.)

No matter what type of leader you are or how widespread your influence, you face personal temptations, challenges, and stresses. And only a foundation of character will sustain you and your leadership.

The ultimate goal of all personal and national authority is freedom

The love of work is the secret to personal progress, productivity, and fulfillment because work encourages the release of potential, and potential is the abundance of talents, abilities, and capabilities given to every person.

It is individualism and collectivism that cancel each other out; properly understood, the corporate and the personal reinforce one another.4

sets us free in our personal lives from the need to worship or trust idols, and in our public lives from the pressure to serve the needs of an idolatrous state.

The inescapable fact that we are personal beings constitutes evidence that our origin is a personal Being.

Either we "keep faith with Darwin" and embrace postmodernism, or we keep faith with a personal God who is not silent—whose Logos is the source of unified, universal, capital-T Truth.

An undefined "mysticism with nobody there" is not enough. It does not fill the hunger in the human heart for connection with a personal God who knows and loves us.

The existence of personal beings constitutes evidence that they were created by a personal God, not by any non-personal cause.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.