Quotes about Attention

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.

You obey not to get God's attention, but because you have been the object of his attention since before the world began.

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. When you quit celebrating grace, you begin to forget how much you need grace, and when you forget how much you need grace, you quit seeking the rescue and strength that only grace can give. This means you begin to see yourself as more righteous, strong, and wise than you actually are, and in so doing, you set yourself up for trouble.

if you begin to want things out of ministry and leadership that you shouldn't want, other areas of calling will not receive the attention from you that they need.

If you have the attention of the enemy, you also have the attention of God.

Son, if you think about, read about, and talk about demons, they will show up.

Rob's story reminds me that how we listen is sometimes (always?) more important than what is said. Maybe that's why Jesus was forever asking people if they had ears to hear what he was saying. And I suspect it's also why the very first word of the great Benedictine Rule, which has guided monastic communities for 1,500 years, is this one little word: listen. Fifteen centuries of successful community built on the power of mere listening.

God saw the Israelites and took notice.

Make the work harder on the men so they will be occupied and pay no attention to these lies.”

saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”

Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.