Quotes About Vigilance

Evil walks among us, and God help us if we don't harden our schools and protect our kids.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

If I'm on the bench, I want to be ready.

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.

Be on the lookout for Saban Brands on a constant basis.

This game can be brutal. As soon as you get comfortable, it bites you. You have to stay on it all the time.

If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.

Don't listen, whispered Faber. He's trying to confuse. He's slippery. Watch out.

And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

There are more kinds of fools than one can guard against.

I had to keep a lookout for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming. When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality—the reality, I tell you—fades.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a great Dzogchen master of the last century, taught, "There is one thing we always need, and that is the watchman named mindfulness, the guard who is on the lookout for when we get carried away in mindlessness.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind. 1 PETER 1:13 KJV

They say certain people aren't good soldiers because if they're in a foxhole all night—you know, if you're creative and smart, you're thinking about all the different ways someone is going to blow your head off. But if you're not that smart, you're just like chilling out. And I feel like that in life. I'm just in the foxhole all fucking day thinking about everything that's going to go wrong in every possible way.

pay attention everything counts

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

That is, living one's full life for God, taking into consideration first of all the actual and then the remote possible good and evil, and then properly preparing oneself with the help of God for any occasion. This is done by prayer, vigilance, and knowledge. Knowledge leads us to God, gives us God, and [enables us to] have life in him. If somebody says he is happy without God, he lies. No creature can satisfy the soul of man which was created for God.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm marrying into a pack of tigers," PJ said. "I'm going to have to watch myself night and day." Sempronia patted his arm. "Retain that thought, my dear," she said, "and we'll get along fine.

Err on the side of caution