Quotes about Priorities

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

It doesn't matter how much success you have in your career; if you fail at home you are a failure.

If ministry success is our god, we are likely to take the shortest path to greater and greater "victories," but preparing and developing people is never on the shortest path.

The religion of Christ," he said, "is not a tidbit after one's bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing. People should at least understand and concede this if they call themselves Christian.

Death tends to change people's focus and priorities—at least for a time. After the war deaths of several Bonhoeffer cousins, the younger members of the family would often lie in bed at night and talk about death and eternity. Do you spend much time thinking about eternity? Should a person concentrate on life after death, or is it better to keep one's focus solely on this life and what can be accomplished now?

Two changes manifested themselves right away: the first was a new attitude toward money, the second toward time.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

When I lost my wife I had a whole different concept of her life. She lived 21 years and people who knew her know it wasn't about the great things she did on this earth. It wasn't that she had money or had popularity, it was that she loved Jesus Christ more than anything else in this world. That was how she related to the world.

I have my relationship with God and myself, and that's what matters to me. I really don't care what most people think.