Quotes about Priority

Your leadership community is in trouble if your leaders are more excited about a strategic planning meeting than a prayer meeting.

You cannot ask for forgiveness without acknowledging that there is something in life that is more important than the progress of your own kingdom.

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”

And indeed, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.