Quotes About Priorities

The next time you hear a person say, 'I don't have time' or 'I have no time, ' Take a moment to be with them. Without time, that somebody becomes a nobody.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

And that's where I'm finally at today - my life is about being with my family. This is what's important.

My life is full of drama, and I don't have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

We need to START buying our KIDS more ($00.50) BOOKS and less ($50.00) Video-Games

Satan will always find you something to do when you ought to be occupied about that [regular, prayerful Bible study], if it is only arranging a window blind.

...[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.

If Money Is Everything Then We Mean Nothing

The Real Life from the Heart is not to Discover the Value of Money.

people talking about you doesn't matter when you are in coffin, its only matter to you when you a alive to hear them.

Life is to short to worry about everything.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

You want to get your kid into Harvard? You really want to know what the data say? I'll tell you what the data say! Go home and love your wife!

could be accomplished by a shift in priorities that involves accepting less prosperous lifestyles, and embraces rich personal, intellectual, and social lives as substitutes for, or even improvements on, the material extravagance that the industrial nations currently offer their more favored inmates.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keeping love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man's business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.

A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

A couple 'took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast five years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, Florida, where they cruise on their 30-foot trawler, play softball and collect shells. . . .' Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: 'Look, Lord. See my shells.' That is a tragedy.