The state might be represented either by a responsible magistrate or by an irresponsible Emperor; in either case obedience was due to the representative of the state; but there was no personal relation to the man.
This was the institution of the comitatus, the system of personal relation between a man and his lord, a relation of faithful service on one side, of faithful protection on the other.
It gave us a new form of nobility, a nobility of office and of personal relation to the King, instead of a nobility founded on birth only.
Religion, then, if it is to be most real to men of the social consciousness, must be personally conceived, that is, must be distinctly seen to be a personal relation of man to God.
The point of view of the Christian theologian involves, besides, the reality of the personal God in personal relation to persons.
If religion is truly a personal relation, and its laws are those of a deepening friendship, then every human relation, heartily and truly fulfilled, becomes a new outlook on God, a revelation of new possibilities in the religious life.
The son had inherited the divine protection and the father's sense of personal relation to Jehovah.
The God of Israel'--that is wide, general; and a man might use it and yet fail to feel that it implied that each individual of the community stood by himself in a personal relation to God.
I have to get hold of my principles in them, and then I have to work over my personal relation to them.
Here in self-defence the 'other' is not regarded as in personal relation to the person threatened, at all events in early stages of development; he is as external as a flood or a precipice.
Nevertheless in fear and hate, when they have reached a high stage of development, there is a feeling of personal relation.
Further, because the activity ofpersonal relation is Love, we see in Beauty the creative knowledge of love, which is necessarily linked in closest intimacy with freedom and emotion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personal relation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
