Quotes About Priority

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

Wisdom—the wisdom of God—is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom (Proverbs 4:7).

Urgency is a tiebreaker only between two tasks of equal validity.

Historic priority, could it be proved, would be vital evidence in a suit of contested ownership; and earlier in this century, before ethnic considerations were the overriding factors they have since become, it was more important still: possession by conquest, backed by historical continuity and stiffened by treaties, was still a valid and respectable consideration.

I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us. . . . I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.

You're the thing that matters to me, Todd. Out of this whole planet, you're the only thing that matters.

Should I expect her to always love me best, and most, and only?

Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.

Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?

The question is not if we worship, but what we give our hearts to worship.

So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

A desire for a good thing becomes a bad thing when that desire becomes a ruling thing.

God loves too much to be willing to forsake his glorious kingdom of grace for your self-absorbed little kingdom of one.

When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.

We love ourselves so much that we have little energy left to love the One who is love.

But this book is not a theology of kingdom, nor an exposition of the kingdom passages in the Bible. No, it is simply a meditation on what Jesus meant when he called us to "seek first his kingdom." What does it really look like to expand everything our lives contain to touch the size of his kingdom?

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce the profit or loss.

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

It will not compete. It demands top priority in the alcoholic's life.

Sobriety must come before everything else.

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44 000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

can gauge how important something is to you by how hard you are willing to work to get it.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

assert the primacy of thought over ritual