Quotes about Priorities

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

he never was known to have a sweetheart; he had not time to be in love.

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue something higher- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.

The fact is, you can say you love God and sing that you trust God and put him first, but your checkbook is where you can show just how much God's grace means to you.

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

You can't decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.