Quotes About Watchfulness

He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.

Les hommes sont comme ça [...]. Ils mangent dans leur bol, mais ils gardent un œil sur la casserole.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

Evie," Grayson murmured. "We need to be careful." Evie?

At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a gaol. And here, indeed, lived La Méchain, like a vigilant proprietess, ever on the watch, exploiting in person her little population of starving tenants.

Precaution is better than cure.

We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.

he crawled on across the farmyard, keeping as low as he could, but trying to watch every direction, too. He had never thought he would envy an earthworm.

Canine homeland security at work.

Suspicion is healthy. It'll keep you alive.

You see one, you've seen 'em both. And here I was, Munro Leaf's watchbird. Here is a watchbird watching two lesbians. Here is a watchbird watching YOU.

You never know who's watching.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

Until then, we're society's only protection. We keep it up long as we have to. Protection? Who are we protecting them from?

Watch out, life is watching you!!

The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.

Jeremiah watched, bemused, but I could tell he was alert, ready to jump in if he needed to.

Indwelling sin remains in us even though it has been dethroned. And though it has been overthrown and weakened, its nature has not changed. Sin is still hostile to God and cannot submit to His law (Romans 8:7). Thus we have an implacable enemy of righteousness right in our own hearts. What diligence and watchfulness is required of us when this enemy in our souls is ready to oppose every effort to do good!

And this was how the red people passed their time and amused themselves when they thought nobody was watching.

Watch and wait, boy. Watch and wait.

I have been too harsh on women, she thought, because I understand them better than I understand men. I know their watchfulness, their patience, their need to advertise themselves as successful. Their need never to admit to a failure. I know all that because I am one of them.

The safety of our children should be our number-one priority.