Faith Priorities Quotes

There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.

Do not become so absorbed with trivial things that you miss learning the doctrine and teachings of the Lord.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages

We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.

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.

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams?

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

If the pursuit of God's glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man's good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the Church, man will not be well served, and God will not be duly honored. I am not pleading for a diminishing of missions but for a magnifying of God. When the flame of worship burns with the heat of God's true worth, the light of missions will shine to the darkest peoples on earth. And I long for that day to come!

It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

Christians don't seem to be as aware of, or as sensitive to, the dire state of humanity as they are about the pleasant growth of their Christian walk.

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.