Quotes about Priorities

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

Nets are generally defined as devices for capturing something. In a more narrow but more important sense, we might define a net as anything that entices or prevents us from following the call of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.

There was never any doubt of Christ's priorities.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match because they have to work is kidding themselves. It's OK to miss a game or two or a performance here and there, but it's not all right to miss the majority of them.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.