Quotes about Interests
Corporate America is not dumb; it's worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.
— Marianne Williamson
Men of different tastes have different pursuits.
— Cicero
It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us. We must make a determination to limit and concentrate our desires and interests on the atonement by the Cross of Christ.
— Oswald Chambers
Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.
— Myles Munroe
that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
— Wayne Dyer
The man is interested in the sowing of wheat in the field; the woman in making the bread.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It were well for parents to learn from the man of Uz a lesson of steadfastness and devotion. Job did not neglect his duty to those outside of his household; he was benevolent, kind, thoughtful of the interests of others; and at the same time he labored earnestly for the salvation of his own family.—Sons and Daughters of God, p. 257.
— Ellen White
Tell me what you laught at, and I'll tell you who you are.
— Marcel Pagnol
his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.
— Edith Wharton
Idolatry consists in harnessing God for our purposes, regarding Yahweh as a reliable ally in our interests, so that God finally becomes useful to us.11 That usefulness is a temptation of all zealous religion, conservative or liberal.
— Walter Brueggemann