Quotes About Priorities

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

What practically defines the evangelical church today is an emphasis on two issues that Jesus did not even mention.

At the end of her story she said simply, "As I look back, this is what matters. I have loved and been loved, and all the rest is just background music.

C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

What's your family? he demanded through clenched teeth. Boleyn. What's your kin? Howard's. What's your home? Hever and Rochford. What's your kingdom? England. Who's your king? Henry. Then serve them. In that order. Did I say the Spanish queen once in that list? No. Remember it.

loving a woman and loving his child is enough

any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.

one is reminded, at a level deeper than all words, how making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Il est urgent de placer l'humain et la nature au cÅ"ur de nos préoccupations et l'économie à leur service. S'obstiner à maintenir le profit illimité et la croissance indéfinie comme fondement de l'ordre mondial est totalement suicidaire.

Le temps est venu de consacrer des moyens à la vie et non à la mort avec les armements qui n'en finissent pas de se perfectionner.

you don't seem to love money too much. And those who haven't made their own money are usually like you. But those who have made it for themselves are twice as fond of it as those who [c] haven't.

not to care for any of his belongings before caring that he himself should be as good and as wise as possible, not to care for the city's possessions more than for the city itself, and to care for other things in the same way.

I would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail in the world: I would even go further, and say the best horse or dog.

What I hope you'll remember, Grace-is that all your life there will be people who have more than you-and people who have less. Grace hung her head. What's really important,'Miss Louise went on to say,'are the connections you have with the people you love. Your family, your friends, Grace-truly, those are the things that matter. Those are the things that will always matter the most.

But we also need to be careful about turning too easily and exclusively to our junk. To television, to the Internet. To movies, sports, and hobbies. To numbing wastes of time, if not to shameful lacks of self-control. Let's be honest, sometimes it's just easier to shop than to deal with our lives.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having all our money.

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.

Give the girl some credit. At least she told you, instead of letting you figure it out on your own. Yeah, and she told me last! Eve glared at the two boys, hands on her hips. Boyfriend, Shane said, holding up his hand. Landlord, Michael chimed in. Crap, Eve sighed. I guess that does leave me in last place.

Jason: I'm all for hobbies, but you think this is the time for origami? Whatcha making, a crane?

Vita hominis plus libro valet! A life is worth more than a book.

Better broke than dead.

Ahh . . . maybe we should be going," Shane said. "Ditch the shoes, Eve. We'll be running now." "I love these shoes!" "More than your circulatory system?" Eve silently kicked off the stilettos and backed up.