Quotes About Priorities

We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.

Jesus warns that the word of God, the gospel, which is meant to give us life, can be choked to death by riches.

Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.

In my view, America's greatest need is for husbands to begin guiding their families, rather than pouring every physical and emotional resource into the mere acquisition of money.

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

What you love determines what you feel shame about. If you love for men to make much of you, you will feel shame when they don't. But if you love for men to make much of Christ, then you will feel shame if he is belittled on your account.

Come to the end of your life—your one and only precious, God-given life—and let the last great work of your life, before you give an account to your Creator, be this: playing softball and collecting shells. Picture them before Christ at the great day of judgment: "Look, Lord. See my shells." That is a tragedy.

To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.

Sometimes a steering wheel is better than a guitar

If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.

Only fundamental objectives should be used to evaluate and compare alternatives.

Decisions with multiple objectives cannot be resolved by focusing on any one objective.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Maybe he loves her. Maybe he wishes to have her forever, maybe he wishes that she could be his bride. Even then he might lose much to be with her-his properties, his position. But next to his love for her, what meaning do they have? He would be a fool to treasure dead gold more then a live heart.

Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.

Whereas in the past a worker lived in his or her work, he or she now works in order to live outside his or her work.

When I asked star linebacker Devin Bush Jr. about this, he laughed and imitated a classmate's voice, " Ã¢â'¬ËœYou're playing a game! You get a free education! You don't have to pay for food and housing!' "Let me tell you: We pay for all that stuff every time we wake up at five-thirty in the morning. When you go home for holidays, we're practicing. When you go home for the summer, we're in class, and the weight room.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

beauty salon and $19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence, but rejected a healthcare reform bill that would offer affordable

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.