Quotes about Priorities

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.

When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death but life without a purpose—life with the wrong priorities. Life's greatest challenge is in knowing what to do. The greatest mistake in life is to be busy but not effective. Life's greatest failure is to be successful in the wrong assignment. Success in life is measured by the effective use of one's time.

29"I'll tell you the truth," replied Jesus. "No one who has left a house, or brothers or sisters, or mother or father, or children, or lands because of me and the gospel 30will fail to receive back a hundred times more in the present age: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands—with persecutions!—and finally the life of the age to come. 31But plenty of people at the front will end up at the back, and the back at the front.

Millions of professing Christians are deceived; they are walking in ways that simply are not biblical. Their values, their responses, their relation ships, their choices, and their priorities reveal that they have bought into the lie of the Enemy and embraced the world's way of thinking.

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

Either we serve God and use money or we serve money and use God.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.