Quotes about Priorities

Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

I have found that winning isn't everything, and, in fact, in the relationships I most care about, it isn't anything.

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

We may spend our lives chasing after wealth, status, influence, and sensual pleasures, thinking they will improve the quality of our life. And yet we end up not having any time left to live.

If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success . . . If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.

any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.