Quotes about Priorities

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).

The battle is not against sin or difficulties or circumstances, but against being so absorbed in work that we are not ready to face Jesus Christ at every turn.

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side.

A warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

Beware of "the cares of this world . . ." (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by "the cares of this world.