Quotes about Priorities

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

If you hold on to what you want so tightly, it almost becomes an idol.

I'm not sure if Mehta knows this. One thing he does know are the left's political priorities, and he shows by this statement that he's willing to go to bat for them, even where it makes no sense. That's why this Asian Indian guy puts on a sombrero.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

Relationships matter. They matter as much as exercise and nutrition. And not all relationships help us reach our goals. God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. He gives them to us for the same reason he confused language at the Tower of Babel, to create chaos and deter us from investing too much energy in the gluttonous idols of self-absorption.

Inevitably, whoever designs our website is more concerned with colors, images, and "feel" than they are with the words we are using.

Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.

Evening is the time which the higher classes choose for dancing, card playing, and the like; and consequently never get to bed till late at night. If we love our souls, and would not become worldly, let us mind how we spend our evenings. Tell me how a man spends his evenings, and I can generally tell what his character is.

No interest should weigh on you so much as their eternal interests. No part of them should be as dear to you as that part which will never die.