Quotes about Priorities

Money is important. It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss America. It is a greater achievement to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second-rate novel filled with filth.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

Lord, you know my world can be nonstop and complex. Help me to balance the demands coming at me today, remembering you while I work, and keeping you at the center of all I do. In Jesus' name, amen.

When I got to high school, I was going to do sports, but I got kicked off the volleyball team because I kept missing it for musical theater.

I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.

To gain control of the world of space is certainly one of our tasks. The danger begins when in gaining power in the realm of space we forfeit all aspirations in the realm of time. There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.