Quotes about Priorities

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

You can have money and still love God, but as Jesus said, you cannot love money and love God.

When Paul talked about his present situation, he did not discuss his personal discomfort. He was not occupied with the inconvenience that imprisonment had caused him. His concern was for the gospel and its advance.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.