Quotes about Importance

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation. To change these traditions by changing our traditional attitude toward public education would be harmful, I think, to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.

It seems to me almost before the Bible says anything else, it is saying that—how important it is to be alive and to pay attention to being alive, pay attention to each other, pay attention to God as he moves and as he speaks. Pay attention to where life or God has tried to take you.

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.

You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.