God Priorities Quotes

#1. I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. You have everything you need today to do what God has for you to do today.

Shelley Hendrix

#3. Each day is God's gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities.

Elizabeth George

#4. The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

Jim George

#5. My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.

Lil' Wayne

#6. When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

Mike Tyson

#7. The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God ... or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

Charles Stanley

#9. God's priority isn't your destination but your development. God's priority isn't the dream but the dreamer.

Bo Sanchez

#10. A sacrifice is not about expecting God to break the bond you have with another person. You make the sacrifice on your own because God is more important than the bond.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. The only way to seek God is to seek God first. Deny the nayward, affirm the yeaward, be true to those stirrings and motions which He starts in us, refuse priority to all else, and be faithful to the sacred.

Jean Toomer

#12. Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

David Shibley

#13. If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.

Victoria Osteen

#14. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.

Essence Atkins

#15. Most people like it when the pastor says, "family is priority." What they don't like very much is when the pastor actually chooses his own family as the priority over them.

Carlos A. Rodriguez

#16. I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.

Harry Hopkins

#17. The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Leland Ryken

#18. Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

Craig Groeschel

#19. In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an 'addendum in' my life verses the 'agenda of' my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. We as pastors, as God's ministers, must have right priorities. Only then we will become successful in ministry.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the goal alone, then the goal has suddenly become our god.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Supporters of the [environmental] movement often appear to worship not the God of heaven, but the god of nature. This is a dangerous form of idolatry. Anytime animal life becomes more sacred in our view than human life, we have lost sight of our proper priorities.

Billy Graham

#23. I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

Bobby Bowden

#24. More importantly, sir, you have my word that I would cherish your daughter and treat her well, bringing her back to Hagenheim for visits, whenever feasible, and that I am a God-fearing man whose priorities are God and family.

Melanie Dickerson

#25. Only dedication to God's calling can make you say a firm "no" to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment.

Sunday Adelaja

#26. My priorities are leaning more towards family, and I credit my southern upbringing to that. I was raised in the church as well, and God plays a big role in my upbringing and my life.

Omari Hardwick

#27. Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.

Henry Blackaby

#28. I contend that the reason why America is not as happy as it was in 1950 or 1920 or whenever, 100 years ago, is because our priorities are wrong, but it has nothing to do with exploiting the planet and has everything to do with losing faith in God.

Glenn Beck

#29. Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. If you will make time with God your first priority, everything else in your life will fall into place.

Joyce Meyer

#31. Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Elizabeth George

#32. Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

Bill Johnson

#33. Look for, and work on becoming, a man or woman who, as a single, seeks God wholeheartedly, putting Him before anything else. Don't worry about impressing the opposite sex. Instead, strive to please and glorify God. Along the way you'll catch the attention of people with the same priorities.

Joshua Harris

#34. There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

Ravi Zacharias

#35. Don't ever let the blessings from your hand take my gaze off the beauty of your face or my pursuit of the beating of your heart.

BJ Richardson

#36. The key ingredient that is missing is a government that will protect the priorities of Heaven and the presence of God in our land.

Danny Silk

#37. Here's a teacher who's talking about Jesus and, oh no, she quotes a bible verse, horror of horrors. The world's breaking and torched and completely messed up, but God forbid some teacher mentions Jesus.

Travis Thrasher

#38. The ledger of my life can lean heavy with a prolific array of stellar investments, yet in the tallying I would be wise to remember that an investment that is not of God will leave a zero balance on the ledger of my life no matter how many different ways I try to add it up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

Jim George

#40. God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.

Judah Smith

#41. The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

John Piper

#42. Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

John H. Groberg

#43. There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more?'. He is asking 'Do you love me?' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be.

Christopher Ash

#44. Living the rest of your life for the glory of God will require a change in your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else.

Rick Warren

#45. Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

Louis Pasteur

#46. I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#47. My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.

Kourtney Kardashian

#48. Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform. It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil.

Chuck Smith

#49. We are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

Francis Chan

#50. God's priorities may be a bit different than ours.
Have you ever thought about that?
Have you ever considered that while you've been working on getting a promotion and moving to a safer neighborhood - God's been working on something else entirely? God's had something else planned?

Cole Ryan

#51. Something is mighty wrong with our priorities when professing Christian men joke about their wives, joke about their children, and joke about God, but fight to the death over their favorite sports team.

Doug Phillips

#52. May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.

Richard J. Foster

#53. The two most underrated priorities of a woman's life are Love for God and Love for self. Prioritize these two and all other loves will fall into place.

Michele Owes

#54. We are a heathen company, more devoted to the customs and the Holy days than to the Holiness itself. We find more pleasure in the song and dance of God than in the piety.

Jim Crace

#55. We are overcome by the "cares ... of this life" when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. It is up to each of us to set the priorities and to do the things that make our soil good and our harvest plentiful.

Dallin H. Oaks

#56. The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.

Charles Stanley