Quotes about Priorities
Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
— Ron Sider
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be underdeveloped in every other way.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
— John F. Kennedy
How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.
— Andrew Murray
There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.
— Andrew Murray
But, oh! we are far more occupied with our work than we are with prayer. We believe more in speaking to men than we believe in speaking to God.
— Andrew Murray
Through Malachi, God chastises them for "thinking that the Lord's table may be despised" (Malachi 1:7). That's strong language, but it rings true. A man who insists that he loves his wife while he lavishes the finest gifts upon his mistress does not truly love his wife.
— Scott Hahn
THERE'S A YIDDISH PROVERB YOU'LL FIND quoted in many books on parenting: "Little children disturb your sleep; big children your life.
— Scott Hahn
The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.
— John Bunyan
We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself.
— John Calvin
Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective.
— Peter Drucker
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
— Ronald Reagan