Quotes about Importance

The situations in which we find ourselves are never as important as our responses to them, which come from our "spiritual" side.

Whatever your situation, there is nothing more important on earth than to dwell in the knowledge of Christ and to bring that knowledge to others.

The body is important, but the mind is all-important. And the most important thing about your mind is what it is fixed upon.

We are in a time when thinking rightly is more important than ever. The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

Their desire for such honor was keeping them from believing, because you cannot hold the esteem of others to that degree of importance and at the same time believe that God is who he is. It is not possible. As long as people are hung up on honor from other people—reputation, appearing well—they cannot truly believe and trust God.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

We often don't know our own stories because we doubt their existence, dismiss their importance, or we're distracted.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

The singular demand for production has been unable to acknowledge the importance of the sources of production in nature and in human culture.

The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. I am no such thing, it would say; I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.