Quotes about Focus

Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us … keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith. Hebrews 12:1—2

I am saying this for your own benefit … so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction. 1 Corinthians 7:35

Prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled;...As obedient children, do not conform to the

Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God." Luke 9:62

If I want him to remain until I come," Jesus answered, "what is that to you? As for you, follow Me." John 21:22

Sometimes ministry can be the biggest distraction to the pursuit of true intimacy with God

Don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:34

Remember Matthew 6:33? "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.