Quotes About Priorities

If your treasure is on earth, your heart will be on earth also, and therefore material things will rule you.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" (Matthew 6:24).

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19-21)

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

If he's in love with someone else, then what does it matter whether or not he's slept with her?

Chloe put aside worries about her job, her life, and turned to face him. Sex can't be the answer to everything, she said as she draped her arms around his strong neck. He bent his head to hers. For now, it can, he said and kissed her.

caught up in causes and concerns and plans for the future and forget what truly mattered—loving and being loved, in the present moment.

You can go three minutes without air, three hours without shelter, three days without water, and three weeks without food.

Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

Given the conditions under which you're a young person in this society, many things would be at least as important to you as your sexuality.

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.