Quotes about Alertness

We're stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we're always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.

Satan watches eagerly to find Christians off their guard. O that the followers of Christ would remember that eternal vigilance is the price of eternal life. Many have a slumbering faith.

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

Lord, help us to see trouble coming long before it gets here. And give us the wisdom to know what to do and the courage to do it.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.

If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?