Quotes about Focus

When I pray, do I concentrate more on the "mountain" I want removed or on God, who can remove it?

It is not on what we spend the greatest amount of time that molds us the most, but whatever exerts the most power over us.

The exacting call of Jesus has no room for good-byes; good-byes, as we often use them, are pagan, not Christian, because they divert us from the call. Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

Consecration is the act of continually separating myself from everything except that which God has appointed me to do. It is not a one-time experience but an ongoing process. Am I continually separating myself and looking to God every day of my life?

Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking. We have to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.

The only way to be obedient to the heavenly vision is to give our utmost for God's highest, and this can only be done by continually and resolutely recalling the vision.

The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to discourage you.

as long as our eyes are focused on our own personal holiness, we will never even get close to the full reality of redemption.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

We have a lot of reasons but only one real one.

History is clear that, in most endeavors, success is a product of uncompromising attention to purpose.