Quotes About Importance

God-the-man has more important matters in his head: wars, catastrophes, conquests, and distant journeys … Women take care of the food.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

C'è spesso, nella mia vita, una sorta di fatalità. E questa fatalità, non noi, ha determinato ciò che doveva accadere. È accaduto troppo in fretta? Può darsi. Ma le cose importanti come nascere amare e morire non guardano il tempo dell'orologio, mio caro Peer Gynt.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Don't sweat the small stuff; however, on the key stuff, sweat everything.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before.

It seems that a physically weak man is of less value to society than even a lame horse.

Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better.

Nobody must be distracted in this fight for life, because out of all values, the most important one is life itself.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1–17.

Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

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 fact that it doesn't matter much to you may mean that it matters a great deal to God. Nothing should be considered a trivial matter by a child of God. How much longer are we going to prevent God from teaching us even one thing? But He keeps trying to teach us and He never loses patience.

It is actually more important to be broken bread and poured-out wine in the area of intercession than in our personal contact with others. The power of imagination is what God gives a saint so that he can go beyond himself and be firmly placed into relationships he never before experienced.

Wanting to make sure that my adversary gives me all my rights is a natural thing. But Jesus says that it is a matter of inescapable and eternal importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord's standpoint it doesn't matter whether I am cheated or not, but what does matter is that I don't cheat someone else. Am I insisting on having my own rights, or am I paying what I owe from Jesus Christ's standpoint?

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.

Everyone has a soul. But the great man—the truly significant soul—is rare.

Daß du mein Grab besuchst, ist nicht wichtig. Ich weiß, daß du an mich denkst – das ist wichtiger.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Smell is the only faculty that accesses the limbic instantly. All other stimuli take longer to register, hence, the importance of odors.

You can't disturb a nobody with evidence he's a nobody. A nobody is not disturbed by anything significant.