Quotes about Priorities

The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

But birth control can also be compelled by sinful motivations. These can include putting lesser priorities like career above higher priorities like family or greedily wanting to make as much income as possible to the exclusion of everything else, and not incur the costs of child raising; being selfish and not wanting to have to care for a child; or immaturely not wanting to take on the responsibility that good parenting requires.