Quotes About Priorities

but at this period of history there are tasks more urgent than the manipulation of words in a harmonious manner.

Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. – Thomas Kelly

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom.

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, sanitation services, and basic education to every person on the planet.4

a reigning logic of efficiency insists that money spent on the public good is somehow a form of indulgence. There

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared to what we spend on our horses?

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

She doesn't love you. She loves herself. I mean, you're not going to be able to compete with that.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said. "What?" "Never mind. Before your time," Lucas said.

Weather stuck her head in and said, "You're not coming to bed?" "Not for a while." She was up late; not working in the morning. "Something came up.

You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.

The next day, I got shot in the head. Before that happened, though, I fell out of my bunk. The falling out of the bunk was not the important part.

As well as you can, live the life you want to live and make the work you want to make. After you're gone it'll all be sorted out or not. You won't be around to worry about it. Focus on the parts you're around for.

Any parent who would force a two-year-old to stare at a computer when the kid would rather do something else deserves the rough side of a moving chainsaw blade.

And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity.

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Mostly I'm too damn busy to know how I feel.

What are you looking for, little man? Is it yourself you're trying to identify?Are you looking at little things to avoid big things?

And all their love was thinned with money.

What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. [...] Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with the children-- none of these prevents a second and continuing layer of thinking, wondering, conjecturing. Surely this must be true of everyone. Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

They gonna need help. They got to live before they can afford to die.