Quotes about Priorities

Christian workers fail because they place their desire for their own holiness above their desire to know God.

It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work

The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us.

The exacting call of Jesus has no room for good-byes; good-byes, as we often use them, are pagan, not Christian, because they divert us from the call. Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

God never tells us to give up things just for the sake of giving them up, but He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having, namely, life with Himself.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

God is more interested in the success of our character than the success of our circumstances.

Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

Our obsession with material things brings trouble and heartache into our lives. So we tell ourselves that we'll do better—we commit ourselves for a time to new budgets, we go on temporary diets, we hold garage sales. But none of it lasts for long because deep inside us, we treasure the creation more than we treasure the Creator.

The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn't your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.