Quotes about Importance
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful, " then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.
- Mario Puzo
Rather than be less car'd not to be at all.
- John Milton
Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.
- John Ortberg
We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.
- John Piper
Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.
- John Piper
Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.
- John Piper
One way to describe this problem is to say that when these people "receive Christ," they do not receive him as supremely valuable.
- John Piper
Reading is more important to me than eating.
- John Piper
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.
- John Wooden
A wise purpose underlay every act of Christ's life on earth. Everything He did was important in itself and in its teaching.
- Ellen White
The importance of little things is underrated just because they are small, but the influence of the little things for good or evil is great. They supply much of the actual discipline of life for every human being. They are part of the training of the soul in the sanctification of all our entrusted talents to God. Faithfulness in the little things in the line of duty makes the worker in God's service reflect more and more the likeness of Christ.—That I May Know Him, p. 331.
- Ellen White
The importance of the Sabbath as a memorial of creation is that it keeps ever present the true reason why worship is due to God,"—because He is the Creator, and we are His creatures.
- Ellen White