Quotes About Attention

Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and My justice will become a light to the nations; I will bring it about quickly.

Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.

Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.

“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”

The LORD said to me: “Son of man, pay attention; look carefully with your eyes and listen closely with your ears to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes and laws of the house of the LORD. Take careful note of the entrance to the temple, along with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

He who has ears, let him hear.

He who has ears, let him hear.”

But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.

Then Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.

Then He rolled up the scroll, returned it to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him,

Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.

So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

The crowds gave their undivided attention to Philipís message and to the signs they saw him perform.

They paid close attention to him because he had astounded them for a long time with his sorcery.

And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.

But if anyone ignores this, he himself will be ignored.

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

Pay close attention to your life and to your teaching. Persevere in these things, for by so doing you will save both yourself and those who hear you.