“Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.” TurnsAttentionWorryBlessingAnxietyMany Blessings Author:Ralph Marston
“Seeking - really seeking - is more than just reading a few verses from the Bible in the morning and trying to be a good person that day. Seeking requires me to sacrifice the things I feel compelled to chase so I can be available to notice God’s clear direction. Whatever we chase, like it or not, gains our full attention. Dear Lord, forgive me for all the times I’ve rushed by Your gifts and overlooked Your blessings. Today, I want to pause and really seek You with all I’ve got. I love You, Lord. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.” WantFeelsTryingPersonsI CanTodayReadingJesusNamesAttentionLordMorningClearSacrificeLove YouBlessingGainsForgivingDearSeekingAvailableVersesPausesCompelledGood PersonAmenOverlookedForgive MeBeing A Good PersonDear LordLord Forgive MeJesus NameClear Direction Author:Lysa TerKeurst
“Our ability to fulfill any assignment is greatly enhanced when we understand the importance of the temple and pay close attention to all that is said and done there. The temple is for redeeming not only the dead but the living as well. All are alive in God, and He is no respecter of persons. Blessings always come from hearing and obeying His word, and His word is never more clear than in the temple.” WellsPersonsSaidDoneAbilityPayAttentionClearAliveBlessingImportanceHearingTemplesAssignmentsObeyingRedeemingSaid And Done Author:John H. Groberg
“While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.” IndividualEffortAttentionResponsibilityDestinyDoubtProgressBlessingConstantMissionsVigilanceBest EffortIndividual ResponsibilityByuPersonal BestIndividual Success Author:Cecil O. Samuelson
“God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.” KnowsChildrenCharacterOpportunitySinAttentionBlessingPainfulBelovedGet AwayAfflictionArrowsRefinement Author:Charles Stanley
“Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are getting into the state of Samadhi, means at a state where you start feeling the joy and the bliss of God's blessings, and then you start saying "O God, what a blessing, what a blessing, and what a blessing". Once you have reached that state then you have to realize "Who am I". Who are you? What are you? You are the Spirit. After establishing your sustained attention on the Spirit you'll develop a state where you'll be in a complete state of witnessing with joy.” WayLoveTryingFirstsMeanStatesFeelingsWisdomJoySpiritRealizingAttentionMeditationBlessingYogaBlissWellnessSamadhi Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.” PeopleRealAbleActorsLostLosesWalksAttentionStreetsBlessingFameAppreciateReputationPay AttentionGrapesSourAnonymitySour Grapes Author:Paul Newman
“When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.” PeopleWayTryingSoulAttentionDivineBlessingBother Author:Catherine Ponder
“Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.” GivingMayFreedomAttentionLibertyRightsSecurityBlessingApproachSacredPressesTrialsSuspectsJealousJewelsAbandonmentJuryTrial By JuryPrecious Jewels Author:Patrick Henry
“Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?” GivingI CanKidsTurnsLeftMemoriesMy OwnInspiringPayAttentionJourneyCrazySweetTruth IsBlessingGiving UpTradePay AttentionFirmI've LearnedPetDevicesFewerFaith In GodBellyDarlingWrinklesThighsCool KidAmazing Friend Author:Anne Lamott
“The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.” WantSchoolFilmGuyGivenWalksAttentionAirBlessing Author:Danny Trejo
“I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.” KnowsWayGivingTryingChildrenI CanGrowthHoursMy OwnAttentionOur LivesJourneyMinutesFiguresBecomingBlessingWasteCelebrateThanksWitnessGrantedThis LifePay AttentionMy ChildrenDawnMeant To BeAdulthoodSlow DownFreezeOne HourOne MinuteMaking TimeInexorableCarrying OnBearing Witness Author:Katrina Kenison