Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces primarily by TV commercials.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality and physical characteristics warts and all and from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer which is reflected in facial expressions among other things.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.