Quotes about Priorities

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

I wonder how often evangelical Christians in today's world have completely inverted these priorities, kowtowing to the overly conservative, judgmental insiders and blasting away at the non-Christian world for not adhering to Christian morality. Yet how can we expect non-Christians to pursue Christian morality when they do not have God's Spirit within them, the Spirit who alone makes such obedience possible?

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

Connie woke up to the existence of legs. They became more important to her than faces, which are no longer very real.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.

Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?

often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget … Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

Friends and family, as well as my personal relationship with the Lord, are more important than anything else.