Quotes About Priorities

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

For where the money of the church goes, so goes its heart.

The money, though, was symptomatic of a heart problem. The church cared more for its own needs than the community and the world.

For many Christians, all other activities have become mandatory while the worship service has become an optional afterthought.

En muchas Iglesias, to que al principio eran las herramientas para transformar la vida, han generado abarrotamiento. En vez de unificar el enfoque, lo diversificaron. Las actividades se convirtieron en fines en si mismas.

where the money of the church goes, so goes its heart.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Many things there are to know which profiteth little or nothing to the soul.

If you gave more frequent thought to your death than to a long life, you would unquestionably be more eager to amend your life.

It is better for you to live privately and take care of yourself than it is to neglect your soul even though you could work wonders in the world.

Pour un petit avantage, on entreprend une longue route; et pour la vie éternelle, à peine en trouve-t'on qui veuillent faire un pas.

It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.

Vanidad es mirar solamente a esta presente vida y no prever lo venidero. Vanidad es amar lo que tan presto se pasa: y no buscar con solicitud el gozo perdurable

Certo é que não podes fruir dois gozos: deleitar-se neste mundo, e depois reinar com Cristo.

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.

Vanidad es desear larga vida y no cuidar que sea buena.

news of all this reached [John], but he said that he did not care about the child, since he still had the anvils and the hammers to forge even finer ones'.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than to die rich

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.