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Prioritities
Priorities
Lewis Sperry Chafer
referring to a
friend who was devoting most of his time and energy in pursuit of an
insignificant matter
said
“He reminds me of a bulldog chasing a train: what’s
he going to do with it if he catches it?” ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations
for Biblical Preaching》
Priorities
During the Byron Nelson Golf
Tournament in Dallas in May 1981
a massive tree limb broke off and fell on a
spectator
who was killed instantly.
It happened near the third hole where
Charles Coody was playing at the time. Shortly after the accident
Coody was
interviewed on the radio and
in talking to the reporter
he said
“After
running over and seeing the accident
I tried to play golf
yet I had no desire
to play after that. All of a sudden those three-foot putts didn’t seem all that
important.” ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical
Preaching》
Priorities
During a flood in the hill country of
Texas in 1978 there was a lady who needlessly lost her life. Her daughter told
reporters
“My mother did not climb the tree with us. She lost her way before
we got to the tree. See
she always kept every little bill and slip and stuff.
She would not let go of her purse with those papers in it.”
It was revealed that the family was
trying to make a chain
holding hands to get through the water. But the mother
had her insurance papers all gathered up in her hands and wouldn’t drop those
documents. So she just washed away. ── Michael P. Green《Illustrations
for Biblical Preaching》
Priorities
At the Milan Cathedral there are three
inscriptions over the respective doorways. Over the right-hand door there is
this motto: “All that pleases is but for a moment.” Over the left-hand door the
words are: “All that troubles is but for a moment.” But over the central door
there is a simple sentence: “Nothing is important save that which is eternal.” ──
Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical Preaching》
Priorities
If you give your child a quarter for
the Sunday offering and later give him three dollars to go to the movies
you
may be teaching him a set of values he will keep the rest of his life. ──
Michael P. Green《Illustrations for Biblical Preaching》
Priorities
When asked why he had been so
successful
Tom Landry responded to a crowd of more than two thousand students
at Baylor University
“In 1958
I did something everyone who has been
successful must do
I determined my priorities for my life-God
family
and
then football.”— Cited in Dallas Morning News
March 2
1978
Priorities
Among the classified ads in the Quay
County Sun was this ad: “Farmer with 160 irrigated acres wants
marriage-minded woman with tractor. When replying
please show picture of
tractor.— AP release
June 1978
Tucumcari
New Mexico