Quotes about Importance
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
- John Piper
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.
- Francis Schaeffer
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.
- William Temple
...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.
- William Paul Young
Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
- Jonathan Edwards
Is it more important to understand than to obey? Is it more important to me to know than to believe?
- Elisabeth Elliot
If in fact I do believe these great things we say and sing together, then those little things (and what is not little by comparison?)
- Elisabeth Elliot
If a duty is clear, the dangers surrounding it are irrelevant.
- Elisabeth Elliot
Don't let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose.
- Elizabeth George
Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God's will.
- Elizabeth George
Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That's why unity in the body of Christ is so important.
- Elizabeth George