Quotes About Focus

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

No prayer is complete without presence.

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Prayer keeps me centered.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

Prayer is an effort of will.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray