Quotes about Priorities
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
— Maria Edgeworth
If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.
— Stephen Colbert
He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).
— Richard Baxter
If God had bid you give them all your estates to own them, or lay down your lives to save them, sure you would have refused, when you will not bestow a little breath to save them? Is not the soul of a husband, or wife, or child, or neighbour, worth a few words? It is worth this, or it is worth nothing. . . . If you did know their misery, you would now do more to bring them out of hell (409). (III.XIII)
— Richard Baxter
Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14
— Richard Blackaby
If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
So Jesus pulls no punches, saying you must "hate" your home base in some way and make choices beyond it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Most
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!
— Rick Warren
It is a fatal mistake to assume that God's goal for your life is material prosperity or popular success, as the world defines it. The abundant life has nothing to do with material abundance, and faithfulness to God does not guarantee success in a career or even ministry. Never focus on temporary crowns.
— Rick Warren
God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
— Rick Warren
The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.
— Rick Warren