Quotes about Priorities

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

People are more important to Him than human traditions.

Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

As a fringe benefit, practicing silent solitude enables us to sleep less and to feel more energetic. The energy expended in the impostor's exhausting pursuit of illusory happiness is now available to be focused on the things that really matter—love, friendship, and intimacy with God.

When you get exhausted, frustrated, overwhelmed, or run down, your body is saying that you are doing things that are none of your business. God does not require of you what is beyond your ability, what leads you away from God, or what makes you depressed or sad.

It is folly for a man who has a dead person in his house to leave him there and go to weep over his neighbor's dead."

When we worry, we have our hearts in the wrong place. Jesus asks us to move our hearts to the center, where all other things fall into place.