Quotes about Priorities
But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from Thy presence, O my God, when men were set before me as models.
— St. Augustine
Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.
— Pope Gregory The Great
If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.
— Alistair Begg
We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships.
— Karen Kingsbury
If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?
— Max Lucado
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
— DH Lawrence
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?
— GK Chesterton
A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time.
— Bill Hybels
When Christ- followers act from a place of godly character—when they keep the big picture in mind, when they put others' needs ahead of their own, when they order lives according to kingdom priorities—things change. Big things change.
— Bill Hybels
A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time.
— Bill Hybels
It takes faith to find personal significance in your relationship with God rather than how much money you earn, how beautiful you look, how many toys you own, how many trophies you collect, or how much territory you conquer and control.
— Charles Swindoll
Destiny will always make someone angry, but better that person be angry with you than for you to be angry with you. I guarantee you will end up an angry person the day you awaken spiritually and realize that you've adhered to everyone's priorities except your own.
— Bishop TD Jakes