Quotes About Importance

In my view, the early Christian Gospels are so much more than historical sources. They are memories of early Christians about the one they considered to be the most important person ever to walk the planet.

if the ends are sufficiently important to require lies instead of the truth.

In short, the books that were of paramount importance in early Christianity were for the most part read out loud by those who were able to read, so that the illiterate could hear, understand, and even study them. Despite the fact that early Christianity was by and large made up of illiterate believers, it was a highly literary religion.

It was clear to me that this newly discovered Gospel of Judas could be one of two things. Its importance and the breadth of its appeal would depend entirely on which of these two things it was.

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order.

Tyler rolls out of bed, sniffs the armpits of yesterday's T-shirt, tosses it aside, gets another out of the drawer. His dad sometimes asks him why he sets his alarm so early -- it's summer vacation, after all -- and Tyler can't seem to make him understand that every day is important, especially those filled with warmth and sunlight and no particular responsibilities. It's as if there's some little voice deep inside him, warning him not to waste a minute, not a single one, because time is short.

As we study the Evangelists' accounts of Jesus' life and death, we discover that their main goal is to persuade readers of Jesus' supreme importance to all humankind and to win their allegiance to a king infinitely superior to any earthly ruler.

It is testimony to the importance of beer in their story that the brewery was the first permanent building the Pilgrims constructed.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives.

It's not enough to say your family is important. If "family" is really going to be top priority, you have to "hunker down, suck it up, and make it happen!

It's how you treat the one that reveals how you regard the ninety-nine, because everyone is ultimately a one.

One person's mission is another person's minutiae.

Communication is the most important skill in life.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. And

IN THE WORDS OF THOMAS PAINE, "THAT WHICH WE OBTAN TOO EASILY, WE ESTEEM TOO LIGHTLY. IT IS DEARNESS ONLY WHICH GIVES EVERYTHING ITS VALUE. HEAVEN KNOWS HOW TO PUT A PROPER PRICE ON ITS GOODS.

Urgent matters are usually visible. They press on us; they insist on action. They're often popular with others. They're usually right in front of us. And often they are pleasant, easy, fun to do. But so often they are unimportant!

We react to urgent matters. Important matters that are not urgent require more initiative, more proactivity. We must act to seize opportunity, to make things happen. If we don't practice Habit 2, if we don't have a clear idea of what is important, of the results we desire in our lives, we are easily diverted into responding to the urgent.

The key is to not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Do what is important rather than what is urgent.

What matters most gets buried under layers of pressing problems, immediate concerns, and outward behaviors. I become reactive.

Think carefully as you consider Quadrants I and III. It's easy to think because something is urgent, it's important. A quick way to differentiate between these two quadrants is to ask yourself if the urgent activity contributed to an important objective. If not, it probably belongs in Quadrant III.