Quotes about Priorities
Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.
— John Wesley
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
— St. Augustine
We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.
— Adrian Rogers
Life is short. Make the most of it. Put God first. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Laugh a lot. Find and live out your purpose.
— Nicky Gumbel
God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
— Max Lucado
If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.
— Timothy Keller
You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
— Francis Chan
It doesn't matter how much success you have in your career; if you fail at home you are a failure.
— Jon Gordon
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.
— Eric Geiger
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.
— Eric Metaxas
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?
— Eric Metaxas