Quotes About Priorities

They say that love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, but people generally get the sense backwards.

Money doesn't sleep. Money doesn't know about clocks, schedules or holidays, and you shouldn't either.

So little time and so little to do.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side.

A warning which needs to be repeated is that "the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches," and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us (Matthew 13:22).

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

Beware of "the cares of this world . . ." (Mark 4:19). They are the very things that produce the wrong attitudes in our soul. It is incredible what enormous power there is in simple things to distract our attention away from God. Refuse to be swamped by "the cares of this world.

Our Lord mentions may be a competitive relationship. I may prefer to belong to my mother, or to my wife, or to myself; then says Jesus, you cannot be My disciple. This does not mean I will not be saved, but it does mean that I cannot be "His.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him. The goal of the call of God is His satisfaction, not simply that we should do something for Him. We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles. Are we more devoted to service than we are to Jesus Christ Himself?

Have you ever noticed what Jesus said would choke the Word He puts in us? Is it the devil? No—"the cares of this world" (Matthew 13:22). It is always our little worries.

Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

Christian work can actually be a means of diverting a person's focus away from Jesus Christ.

Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God.

It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right with God before you worship Him yourself.

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet—that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.

The exacting call of Jesus has no room for good-byes; good-byes, as we often use them, are pagan, not Christian, because they divert us from the call. Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.