Prioritizing God Quotes & Sayings

I brushed my hands on the pockets of my jeans, still marvelling at the fact I wasn't wearing a gown. And that I had real underwear on. It was the small things — Allison Pang

Here is a remarkable truth: God is able to bring eternal results from our time-bound efforts. This is what Jesus intimates when he tells us to store up treasure in heaven rather than on earth. When we invest our time in what has eternal significance, we store up treasure in heaven. This side of heaven, the only investments with eternal significance are people. "Living this day well" means prioritizing relationships over material gain. We cannot take our stuff with us when we die, but, Lord willing, we may feed the hungry and clothe the needy in such a way that an eternal result is rendered. We may speak words that, by the favor of the Lord, transform into the very words of life. This is the calling of the missionary, the magnate, and the mother of small children: spend your time to impact people for eternity. — Jen Wilkin

But in the end he was so tired and hungry that, rather than walk to Utah, he decided to take his chances in a moss-and-puffball suit on a shock pancake thrown into the air by a giant catapult. Besides, the thing was insanely alluring. — Mark Helprin

Always. Don't argue, Ms. Fairchild, or the game stops now. — J. Kenner

There were pools of light among the stacks, directly beneath the bulbs which Philip had switched on, but it was now with an unexpected fearfulness that he saw how the books stretched away into the darkness. They seemed to expand as soon as they reached the shadows, creating some dark world where there was no beginning and no end, no story, no meaning. And if you crossed the threshold into that world, you would be surrounded by words; you would crush them beneath your feet, you would knock against them with your head and arms, but if you tried to grasp them they would melt away. Philip did not dare turn his back upon these books. Not yet. It was almost, he thought, as if they had been speaking to each other while he slept. — Peter Ackroyd

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. — Tim Roth

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. — Michael Douglas

My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life. — Pat Conroy

Manage the cause, not the result. — W. Edwards Deming

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. — Helen Keller

In 1985, if you were a wrestling fan, you were into Hogan; that's just the way it was. — John Cena

To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. — Janet Coleman

If God says I'm highly favored, then I will not talk myself out of it. I believe I'm highly favored. If God says the impossible can happen, then I believe the impossible will happen. — Joel Osteen

It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization. — Isabella L. Bird

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent — Tariq Ramadan

When I first began my career I had one dictum that I set myself: to be paid for my work, but not to work for pay. Fame makes it that much easier to follow that maxim." He gave her a sharp look. "At least it does so long as I recognize when I am beginning to paint the obvious, rather than painting what I must express. People would rather you did the same thing over and over again and it becomes very easy to fall into their trap - particularly when you're young and hungry. But the more you do so, the nearer you are drawn to something you should not be a part of that homogeneity that is the death of any form of creative expression. — Charles De Lint