Divine Priority Quotes

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.

Love not Pleasure; love God.

Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles.

The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

It must be God first, God second, and God third

Lord, help me to appreciate this woman/man without elevating her/him above you in my heart. Help me to remember that nobody can ever take your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God. Give me an undivided heart.

Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Do we eagerly long for the coming of Christ? Or do we want him to wait while our love affair with the world runs its course? That is the question that tests the authenticity of faith.

To the wind with what the world thinks about us. We are not to seek the approval of earth, but the honor of heaven.

God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.