Quotes about Priorities

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

I'm married. I have three children. I have a mortgage to pay. The plumbing breaks and the yard needs trimming. However, what my wife and children need most from me is my passion for them.

And it is good for a man not to touch a woman. And, he that is unmarried thinketh of the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things of this world, how he may please his wife.

But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from Thy presence, O my God, when men were set before me as models.

Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.

If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships.

If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time.