Quotes about Priorities

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions. We may pass them by, preoccupied with our more important tasks…When we do that we pass by the visible sign of the Cross, raised athwart our path to show us, not our way, but God's way must be done.

It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this, but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked yet straight path" (Gottfried Arnold). They do not want a life that is crooked and balked.

But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend.

Live your life by a compass, not a clock.

Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.