Quotes About Priorities

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

You know you're a skydiver when you'll wake up at 6:30 am on the weekends to get to the drop zone, but you can't seem to get up by 7:30 on the weekdays to be at work by 8:00.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.

If the shelves are dusty and the pots don't shine, it's because I have better things to do with my time.

If you get upset when the toast burns, what are you going to do when your house burns down?

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

You know you're a skydiver when you buy anything you calculate how many skydives it will cost.

But Martha was cumbered about much serving.

I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Better to live in a small rented apartment than in a flat or bungalow purchased on a housing loan

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Money for the wise is a necessity of life, not a reason to live

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

Christians tend simply to align themselves with secular and idolatrous ideologies, and they do this without integrating fully into their thinking the ways in which kingdom priorities ought to arrange a Christian's perspective on the society by holding love, human dignity, and solidarity in healthy tension. Anthony Bradley in Morgan, Christopher W.; Peterson, Robert A. (2012-11-30). The Kingdom of God (Theology in Community) (Kindle Locations 4636-4638). Crossway. Kindle Edition.

What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

Said a disciple, 'I don't trade my love for money.' Said the Master, 'isn't itas bad - or worse - that you trade it for love?

Think of yourself in a concert hall listening to the strains of the sweetest music when you suddenly remember that you forgot to lock your car. You are anxious about the car, you cannot walk out of the hall and you cannot enjoy the music. There you have a perfect image of life as it is lived by most human beings.

Suppose somebody showed us a way whereby we would truly love one another, and be at peace, be at love. Can you think of anything more practical than that? But, instead, you have people thinking that big business is more practical, that politics is more practical, that science is more practical. What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle your heart is attached to and which you have given the power to so upset you. Trifle, yes, because if you live long enough a day will easily come when it will cease to matter

la gente trata de ganar el mundo y cómo, al hacerlo, pierde su vida. Y es que viven unas vidas vacías, monótonas, sin alma...

Papa, it's too expesive.' ' That's for me to worry about.

Bandits wait around every corner to bash your skull and ghouls lurk in the shadows, hoping to drink your blood. Here you have cheese, wine, your friends, and your flock. What you already have is better than what you so desperately seek." But as a bee hurries to and fro, visiting every flower without pause, so my restlessness…

She'd been naked in her pool, floating on her back, when she realized that her life—two kids, a three-story Tudor, an Audi wagon—was not what she wanted.