Quotes About Personal

Statistics mean nothing to the individual. Not a damn thing.

I never thought I'd have a story worth telling, at least not one about me.

important to do both. If I understand what the Bible means but never hear what it says to me personally, I have information without revelation. But conversely, if I disregard its original context and ignore the bits I don't like or don't understand, I will be in grave danger of abusing God's Word by confusing it with my own feelings, preferences, and prejudices.

No one can blame his defeat in a holy war on another person, priest, group or religion. Each man's holy war is his own.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

There is no simple solution how properly to translate the Hebrew ?adam or the Greek ????????. One of the meanings these terms carry refers simultaneously to humankind and human personhood—as collective and generic—but does so in a way that retains a particular and personal focus.

Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.

It did not then cross my mind that they, like religious apologists, might have any personal reasons for holding to this disbelief. It certainly did not cross my mind that I had any low motives for it. Unlike Christians, atheists have a high opinion of their own virtue.

La autoridad de las Escrituras es la autoridad personal del Señor sobre el pueblo al que ha salvado. No es un libro que hable de Dios de la misma manera que el Manual del pescador habla sobre la pesca.

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs - a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.

See what large letters I am using to write to you with my own hand!

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. This is my mark in every letter; it is the way I write.