Quotes About Focus

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.

It is hard to stay focused with so much swirling around me. God is distracting. He never stops talking, and I can never stop listening. There is a reason we sleep.

Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

Immerse yourself in the Word of God and what He has to say and get your eyes and your emotions, as hard as that might be, get them off the situation and turn to Him.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

The clearer your vision becomes, the easier it is to guard what God calls you to do.

Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.

You must make the main thing in your picture appear most important. If anyone tells me my hat is more important than my head - by God I'm taking off my hat.

God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

God isn't waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.

Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.

Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.

If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.

Get honest with God, and your focus will shift from just seeing your problems - no matter how overwhelming they seem - to the grace of God.