Quotes About Priorities

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks…When we do that we pass by the visible sign of the Cross, raised athwart our path to show us, not our way, but God's way must be done.

It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this, but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked yet straight path" (Gottfried Arnold). They do not want a life that is crooked and balked.

But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend

We want to care most about what Jesus cares most about.

To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.

Our reactions reflect our repentance. Our practices reveal our priorities. Changed lives change lives.

God doesn't call us to fix every problem or to please every person; He calls us to do what we can.

I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio.

I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a country where millions of dollars are spent on nuclear weapons, corporate welfare, and many ridiculous things, doesn't it just make sense to take care of people first? As soon as we can make the South Bronx, Compton, Taos, and Astoria look like Beverly Hills I'll have no problem watching a guy orbit Mars.

Il était presque dix heures et demie lorsqu'Olivia arriva à son travail, et M. Holgate menaça évidemment de la congédier. – Je suis désolée. Ma maison s'est effondrée hier soir. – Et alors ? Cela n'empêche pas les clients d'avoir envie d'acheter des livres.

Ni?emu život ne sme da bude cena. Apsolutno ni?emu.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line.

But what can be learned from trivia? A history of inventions reveals we made the gun silencer (1908) before air conditioning (1911), the kaleidoscope (1817) before Braille printing (1829), cocaine (1860) before penicillin (1929). It's a story about pleasure before usefulness, about ingenuity in killing before improving our everyday lives." The Beautiful Miscellaneous,

How hard it can be to keep an eye on what's important, not be distracted by confusing patterns. Better to get out of the shadows . .

61 Y otro le dijo: Yo te seguiré, Señor, pero primero déjame ir a despedirme de mi casa. 62 Le respondió Jesús: Ninguno que después de haber puesto su mano en el arado y vuelve los ojos atrás, es apto para el reino de Dios. 10

For Henri Jayer of Vosne-Romanée in Burgundy, it meant trading his wine for food so his family would have enough to eat. For Prince Philippe Poniatowski of Vouvray, it meant burying his best wines in his yard so that he would have something to restart business with after the war.

I would rather start a family than finish one.

the old "4-4-40" rough standard for human survival: four minutes without air, four days without water, forty days without food.

Rich or dead. There's worse choices.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.