Divine Focus Quotes

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

Surround yourself with prompts that remind you who Jesus is.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Our hearts can always be in the same place, centered on God.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Worship is God's way of giving us an opportunity to shift our focus from our own concerns, problems, and circumstances to the way things are in heaven.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Although we tend to think about saints as holy and pious, and picture them with halos above their heads and ecstatic gazes, true saints are much more accessible. They are men and women like us, who live ordinary lives and struggle with ordinary problems. What makes them saints is their clear and unwavering focus on God and God's people.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake.

God is not a diversion.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

Nothing exists but him.

Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.