Quotes about Attention

We are what we do with our attention."64

All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

You might think of praying without ceasing as communicating with God on one line while also taking calls on another. Even while you are talking on the other line, you never lose your awareness of the need to return your attention to the Lord. So praying without ceasing means you never really stop conversing with God; you simply have frequent interruptions.

According to James 1:22-25, we can experience God's truth so powerfully that what the Lord wants us to do becomes as plain to us as our face in the morning mirror. But if we do not apply the truth as we meet it, regardless of how wonderful the experience of discovering the truth has been, we deceive ourselves if we think we will be blessed for giving attention to the Bible on those occasions. The one who "will be blessed in his doing" is the one who does what Scripture says.