Quotes about Prioritization

If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.

If you don't invest in you, you'll soon find that no one else will, either.

I'd rather you waste my money than waste my time.

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

I felt that 15,000 men on the 8th would be more effective than 50,000 a month later.

The only way love can be shown in this world is by sacrifice —namely, the surrender of one thing for another. Love is essentially bound up with choice, and choice is a negation, and negation is a sacrifice. When a young man sets his heart upon a young woman and asks her to marry him, he is not only saying "I choose you"; he is also saying "I do not choose, I reject, all others. I give them all up for you." Apply this to the problem of lust.

He now clearly perceived the truth which was henceforth to be the centre of his life, namely, that while she was there, while he had her near him, he would need nothing except for her sake and fear nothing except on her account. He was not even conscious of feeling extremely cold, having taken off his coat to cover her.

You can't put as much into one thing as you want, and I felt like I was shortchanging football a little bit by giving school so much time.

The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his energy on coming to grips with it, and in this way he misses the actual content of the love: the woman he loves. (In this he is much like a young violinist who cannot concentrate on the emotional content of a piece until the technique required to play it comes automatically.)

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.