Quotes about Priority

The "pure" in heart know the temptation of externalism and the social honor that comes with being pure in hands, or in observance, or in reputation (15:1—20; 23:25—28).41 But the pure in heart see God as a person to be loved, so their first priority is God, and this love leads to loving others well.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

Whatever you love most, that is your god.

Our love for Christ is more important to Him than all of our service to Him. Strict obedience and services are not enough. Love for Jesus must come first.

Whatever you love more than God is your idol.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

The practice of the presence of the Lord begins when Jesus becomes more real to us than our problems, our families, our troubles, and even more real than life itself. At that moment, it is all about Jesus.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.