Quotes About Priorities

Cerremos nuestros ojos, usemos nuestra mente y percibamos cómo sería nuestra existencia si el velero de nuestra vida navegara siguiendo el rumbo que marcan nuestras prioridades y las velas las impulsara el viento de nuestros valores.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily.

As we got closer to marriage, I felt completely confident that Gordon loved me. But I also knew somehow that I would never come first with him. I knew I was going to be second in his life and that the Lord was going to be first. And that was okay. It seemed to me that if you understood the gospel and the purpose of our being here, you would want a husband who put the Lord first.

As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember

How we spend our money, however little we have, still reveals what we value.

You don't have to live in fear that God is going to take away what is most important to you. After all, Isaac was God's gift to Abraham. But if the gift ever becomes more important than the Gift Giver, then the very thing God gave you to serve His purposes is undermining His plan for your life. God is no longer the End All and Be All. And when God becomes the means to some other end, it's the beginning of the end spiritually because you have inverted the gospel.

We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don't want to spend time with Him.

Diezmar es confiar. Y cuando pones a Cristo en el primer lugar en tus finanzas, vives con unas expectativas santificadas.

Not many people sell their souls to the devil, but many of us sell our souls to the culture. Instead of defining success for ourselves, we let the culture define it for us. Instead of daring to be different, we conform to the pattern of this world. Why? We let our culture have the loudest voice.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

You could, he believed, divide the combat wing commanders into three categories; those who wanted to make general, those who wanted to make Ace, and those who wanted to protect their pilots. The truly exceptional ones wanted to do all three in reverse order.

A book? All this for a book?

Too often Christians today have only two gears on their theological bike: essential and unimportant.

In some major cities today, having a pro football team is a higher priority than providing basic services. The city of Oakland and Alameda County, for example, shell out over $30 million each year to support the Raiders; by 2012, Oakland, with one of the worst crime rates in the nation, had cut 200 police officers to save money. The

With so many alternatives, how can we let our children, our loved ones, ourselves, play a game that may destroy the essence of who we are? How can we enjoy it as entertainment?

Rich men have big libraries. Poor men have big TVs.

marriage, children, illness, and death were life-changing events. Everything else was just ripples in the river.

to pay for pussy, there wouldn't be enough members left in the chamber of commerce to play gin.

The next time you catch yourself running on that transactional hamster wheel, try something different. Stop what you're doing, and sit down. Take a breath. And say to yourself: "What would I like to be doing with my life this time next year?" or "What do I need more or less of in my life right now?" or "If my kids looked at me 20 years from now, what would make them proud of me?

I once heard someone say, "If you are standing in line at the judgment seat and see a line with a bunch of preachers in it, get in another line. It will go faster.

Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?