Quotes about Priorities

You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

A century ago man's chief concern was his spiritual life; today his chief concern is with his physical and temporal affairs.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. 1 JOHN 2:15

In 2004, Americans spent about $46 billion to lose weight and $22 billion on cosmetics. Those expenditures alone would make the difference between life and death for the people of the world who are dying of starvation

In our world, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul. Consequently we are one-sided. We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic.

Have you fallen into the world's trap, following its self-indulgent goals and driven by its self-centered motives? It can happen without you even being aware of it. Make sure Christ is first in your life, and make it your goal to live according to His Word.

Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man's heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.

We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Money takes our minds off God.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.