Quotes about Importance

we too easily assume that we are our real selves, and that our choices are really the ones we want to make when, in fact, our acts of free choice are (though morally imputable, no doubt) largely dictated by psychological compulsions, flowing from our inordinate ideas of our own importance.

Why is learning about these Jewish festivals so important? It is in looking back at what God has done that we can see forward to His future plans for us. "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future'" (Jeremiah 29:11).

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.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... it has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

Little things affect little minds.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

People just want to know that they matter.