Quotes about Focus

Prayer is abandoning my addiction to other glories and delighting in the one glory that is truly glorious-the glory of God

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

The spiritual reality for many of us is that the one thing is not the Lord. And the danger in that reality is this: your one thing will control your heart, and whatever controls your heart will exercise inescapable influence over your words, choices, and actions. Your one thing will become that which shapes and directs your responses to the situations and relationships of your daily life. If the Lord isn't your one thing, the thing that is your one thing will be your functional lord.

When amazing realities of the gospel quit commanding your attention, your awe, and your worship, other things in your life will capture your attention instead.

the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs.

We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life.

So the desire for good possessions is not wrong, but it must not rule your heart.

if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never

All their commitments to change have been subverted by the one thing they seem unwilling to do: take the focus off the other and put it on themselves. Here is the point: no change takes place in a marriage that does not begin with confession.

That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

Here's the real-life, street-level issue: if you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.