Quotes about Prioritization

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate prayer. I'd rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray for prayer requires strength.

If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Do the next thing." I don't know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.

The most important step to living a better life is to choose to put God first daily.

I sit in the driver's seat concerning most of the structure of my every day, including growing in the Lord. I decide whether the things of the Lord are really that important to me…or not. I decide whether I will make the effort to grow…or not. I decide whether I will schedule in the time it takes to grow, to meet with God regularly, to stop, look, and listen to Him by reading my Bible…or not.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in; put second things first and we lose both first and second things.