Quotes about Priorities

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

We spend enormous amounts of time and money on fad diets, expensive exercise machines, and health clubs. For many people, these things only demonstrate their preoccupation with the physical side of life . . . but even more important is taking care of our souls.

Giving up something to follow Christ is not earning salvation; it is giving up what keeps you from salvation. When we hold on to something that is dearer to us than receiving the greater gift of salvation in Christ, we lose.

What shall it profit a man, if he . . . gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" (Mark 8:36).

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

In our desire to achieve success quickly it is easy to get our values mixed up and call evil good and good evil.

Cut out some of your "important social engagements," and make your home the center of your social life. God will honor you, and your children will grow up to call you "blessed" [Proverbs 31:28].

We are accountable to [God] for the way we use our time.

You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

A century ago man's chief concern was his spiritual life; today his chief concern is with his physical and temporal affairs.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. 1 JOHN 2:15

In 2004, Americans spent about $46 billion to lose weight and $22 billion on cosmetics. Those expenditures alone would make the difference between life and death for the people of the world who are dying of starvation