Quotes about Distraction

Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten. Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

Tribulation came from losing sight of Jesus and looking at the troubled, fallen world. Peter walked on water until he took his eyes off Jesus.

Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.

It was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.

Let not the interest of religious thoughts and exercises deceive you; they very often take the place of waiting upon God.

But, oh! we are far more occupied with our work than we are with prayer. We believe more in speaking to men than we believe in speaking to God.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.