Quotes about Attention

Don't run, child! You'll never escape the two most important presences in the life of any human being: God and death. God accompanies your every step and will be annoyed because he can see that you're not paying attention to the miracle of life. Or indeed death. You just ran past a corpse and didn't even notice.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.

Yelling is a form of publishing.

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.