Quotes about Importance
We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.
— Andrew Murray
The first rule of a bureaucracy is to protect the bureaucracy. If the people running the welfare program had let their clientele find other ways of making a living, that would have reduced their importance and their budget.
— Ronald Reagan
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.
— Donald Miller
Life can get distorted and out of whack when you don't know God. And you can't really know Him in truth apart from the Word of God. Look around you at the lives people are living. Find out how important the Bible is in their lives and how much time they devote to studying it. Notice the relationship between their knowledge of God and the way they handle life.
— Kay Arthur
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
— Craig Groeschel
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
— Steven Pressfield
It is, moreover, of the greatest importance for every believer, particularly for the dogmatician, to know which Scriptural truths, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, have been brought to universal recognition in the church of Christ. By this process, after all, the church is kept from immediately mistaking a private opinion for the truth of God.
— Herman Bavinck
No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person
— Dale Carnegie
The call to humility has been too little regarded in the church because its true nature and importance have been too little apprehended. It is not something that we bring to God, or that He bestows; it is simply the sense of entire nothingness that comes when we see how truly God is everything.
— Andrew Murray
Divine truth is not something we "discover;" it is revealed by the Holy Spirit of God. As such, no other reality in the Christian life is as important as being filled with the Spirit.
— Henry Blackaby
It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, to His Son Jesus Christ, than to seek what God intends for us today.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer