Quotes about Priority
By affirming that love is our priority in a situation
— Marianne Williamson
Instead of, "Dear God, please let us fall in love, or please give me this job," we say, "Dear God, my desire, my priority is inner peace. I want the experience of love. I don't know what would bring that to me. I leave the results of this situation in your hands. I trust your will. May your will be done. Amen.
— Marianne Williamson
Dear God, my desire, my priority is inner peace. I want the experience of love. I don't know what would bring that to me. I leave the results of this situation in your hands. I trust your will. May your will be done. Amen.
— Marianne Williamson
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
— GK Chesterton
Preferring anything above Christ is the very essence of sin. It must be fought.
— John Piper
Life is too precious to squander on trivial things. Grant us, Lord, the unswerving resolve to pray and live with David Brainerd's urgency: "Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!
— John Piper
A non-treasured Christ is a nonsaving Christ.
— John Piper
Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.
— John Piper
One way to describe this problem is to say that when these people "receive Christ," they do not receive him as supremely valuable.
— John Piper
If we don't want God above all things we have not been converted by the gospel.
— John Piper
And seek first in all you do to make known His kingship over your life.
— John Piper
Christ is to be cherished, not just chosen.
— John Piper