Quotes about Priorities

The call to self-emptying will always be unpopular to those whose pockets and closets are full. What

Jack Taylor put it this way: "an idol is something you have to check with before you say yes to God".

I was beginning to learn from my grandfather that love covers a multitude of sins and that I was more important to him than his stuff.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

The path that leads through Latin and alebra is not the path to material success. But it may suggest much more: that understanding things is a waste of time; that if you want to succeed in the world and have a happy family and a nice home and a BMW you should not try to understand things but just add up the numbers or press the buttons or do whatever else it is that marketers are so richly rewarded for doing.

i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

The time to shift your priorities in the direction of Destiny is never convenient. There will always be a reason to put it off until later.