Quotes About Priorities

A high regard for the things of this world always signals a lowering regard for God.

When we invest in the things that matter most to us, that are within God's unique design for each of us, I believe we will achieve a sense of balance in our lives.

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

I believe in God, family, and McDonald's. And in the office, that order is reversed.

If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

Who are you going to live for - yourself or God?

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

What are you willing to lay down so you can stand up?

Whatever a man values, it is there you will find his resources. That which has no value to him, neither he nor his resources nor him will be present. Where can we find you?

Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today.

I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.