Quotes about Prioritization

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

Many of us have merely added Christ to our lives as another interest in an already busy and otherwise overcrowded schedule. This sort of thinking has watered down the meaning of a personal relationship with Christ. The problem is that we often seek the God we want, but do not know the God who is.

Many of us are busy "doing" but are not keeping our personal relationship with God in tune.

If you put too many things in your need category, you will end up frustrated with life, hurt by others, and doubting God's goodness.

That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.

Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.

I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.