Quotes about Priorities

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

I don't care if Spielberg directed

I don't find pastors and professors, for the most part, very interested in matters of formation in holiness. They have higher profile things to tend to.

No matter if we come home with the Olympic gold or make a million dollars or pioneer the exploration of space or move the world with some artistic performance or discover the cure to cancer—if we do not love, it is not satisfactory. No matter if we are responsible and work hard and do our jobs well and stay out of trouble and are respected, if we do not love, then somehow we have failed. If we live but do not love, we miss it.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

There are more important things in life than boxing.

My religion and my family are the two most important things in my life. But I love basketball.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

The question isn't, "What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?" but, "Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

I have so much going on inside my head in terms of writing, there's such a large space in my life taken up by that. I can't imagine it being taken up by a husband and children and writing, and everything getting its due. I don't believe there is room for all of it. I really don't.

We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.