Quotes about Focus

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Martha, seeking to serve the Lord according to her own thoughts, was distracted and diverted. The

When we give anything more priority than we give to God, we commit idolatry. Thus we all commit idolatry countless times every day.

I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted; then I realized that the interruptions were my work.

Our individual as well as communal lives are so deeply molded by our worries about tomorrow that today hardly can be experienced.

However, if I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. It's so easy to spend your whole time being preoccupied with urgent matters and never starting to live, really live.

When we worry, we have our hearts in the wrong place. Jesus asks us to move our hearts to the center, where all other things fall into place.

Distractions mean that we are being pulled into the past or into the future. That is what a distraction is. We start thinking about what happened yesterday or what is happening tomorrow. Distractions mean we are not yet fully here. We are not fully present yet.

Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live.