Quotes about Priority

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

The most precious resource we have is time.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

Let Christ's love bear most court in your soul, and that court will bear down the love of other things. Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

By affirming that love is our priority in a situation

Instead of, "Dear God, please let us fall in love, or please give me this job," we say, "Dear God, my desire, my priority is inner peace. I want the experience of love. I don't know what would bring that to me. I leave the results of this situation in your hands. I trust your will. May your will be done. Amen.

Dear God, my desire, my priority is inner peace. I want the experience of love. I don't know what would bring that to me. I leave the results of this situation in your hands. I trust your will. May your will be done. Amen.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.

Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!