Quotes About Prioritization

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

Value the relationship more than making your quota.

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours.

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.

Martin Luther's statement is often quoted, "I have so much to do that I must spend the first three hours in prayer.

the use of time: the experiential equivalent of money.