Quotes about Personal

God's providence is never characterized in broad generalities or pious abstractions but always in the particular, in the personal, in the recognition of grace in an unlikely time, at an unlikely place. Who could have anticipated ravens?

What is dangerous is not ideas but the academic mind that abstracts both things and people from particular relationships into concepts. And what is dangerous is not programs but the programmatic mind that routinely sets aside the personal in order to more efficiently achieve an impersonal cause.

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

God has chosen to veil Himself in just the right measure so that our wills and intellects could be shaped by our allegiance to Him. He is there for anyone humble enough to recognize his or her personal need. He is also subtle enough to be ignored by those who are filled with themselves.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

Worship has become a primary part of life. It's wonderful when it's in the corporate gathering. But it's shallow when it's only corporate. My personal life must be one of continuous worship to experience the transformations that I long for. We always become like the one we worship.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

For he loves each one of us," she said to herself, "as though there were only one to love.

We talk about touching our guys in a personal way, knowing that we all want to play basketball and coach basketball, but our guys are dealing with stuff and we want to make sure we are sensitive to that.

Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

PRECIOUS AS IT IS TO PROCLAIM,          Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã…"CHRIST DIED FOR THE WORLD,"          EVEN SWEETER IT IS TO WHISPER,          Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã…"CHRIST DIED FOR ME.