Quotes about Priorities
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
— Jimmy Carter
It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.
— Celine Dion
My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.
— Audrey Hepburn
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
— Confucius
The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.
— Craig Groeschel
Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?
— Philip Yancey
I wonder about the enormous energy being devoted these days to restoring morality to the United States. Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?
— Philip Yancey
At the end of her story she said simply, "As I look back, this is what matters. I have loved and been loved, and all the rest is just background music.
— Philip Yancey
C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
— Philip Yancey
The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.
— Philip Yancey
God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.
— Kent Hughes
God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having all our money.
— Kent Hughes