Quotes About Personal

A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

I am extremely spiritual. I've not gone into this before because it's personal, but faith is the core of my life.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future.

I'm incredibly spiritual. There are like tens of thousands of denominations; I don't fit in any one of those denominations comfortably. But I have a very personal relationship with God.

Spiritual matters should be private.

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was old enough. I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

No intento imaginar un Dios personal; es suficiente sentir un gran respeto hacia la estructura del mundo, en tanto que permite que nuestros inadecuados sentidos lo aprecien.

I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . One reads a certain edition, a specific copy, recognizable by the roughness or the smoothness of its paper, by its scent, by a slight tear on page 72 and a coffee ring on the right-hand corner of the back cover.

My library was to me an utterly private space that both enclosed and mirrored me.

I've often felt that my library explained who I was, gave me a shifting self that transformed itself constantly throughout the years.

But there is something other than entertainment which one derives from reading in bed: a particular quality of privacy. Reading in bed is a self-centred act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.