Quotes about Watchfulness
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
- Cicero
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- Desmond Tutu
Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.
- Gordon Hinckley
lion looking for someone to devour.
- Lysa TerKeurst
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.
- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
- John Donne
Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. Hebrews 3:12
- Beth Moore
Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled … or that day will come on you unexpectedly. Luke 21:34
- Beth Moore
Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
- Teresa of Avila
No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, [...] compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
- Henry David Thoreau
Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
- JC Ryle