Quotes about Watchful

Nor can we be any of us delivered from this snare, at this season, without a watchful endeavour to keep and preserve our minds in the constant contemplation of things spiritual and heavenly, proceeding from the prevalent adherence of our affections unto them, as will appear in the ensuing discourse.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

It's no coincidence that being watchful and prayerful are coupled by the apostle Paul in his letter to the Colossians: "Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful." The word watchful is a throwback to the ancient watchmen whose job it was to sit on the city walls and scan the horizon for attacking armies or trading caravans. They saw sooner and further than anyone else. Prayer opens our spiritual eyes so we see sooner and further.

Someone needs to be their guardian on the that trail. I'm taking that job.

It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.

They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.

Behold, the Protector of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.