Quotes about Focus

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

There are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!

Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.

To Erasmus] I give you hearty praise and commendation on this further account-that you alone, in contrast with all others, have attacked the real thing, that is, the essential issue. You have not wearied me with those extraneous issues about the Papacy, purgatory, indulgences and such like -trifles, rather than issues... you, and you alone have seen the hinge on which all turns, and aimed for the vital spot.

He who prays must be like a good, industrious barber who has to keep his mind and eyes precisely upon his razor and hair and know whether to cut or trim, lest by too much gabbing or looking about aimlessly, he slashes someone's mouth or nose, or worse, someone's throat.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Don't be so busy 'working' for God that you don't do what God has asked you to do.