She had failed in watchfulness before (So 1: 6); now when converted, she is the more jealous of subtle sins (Ps 139: 23). ❋ Unknown (1871)
Persevering constancy ( "perseverance") and (that is, exhibited in) supplication are to be the element in which our watchfulness is to be exercised. for all saints -- as none is so perfect as not to need the intercessions of his fellow Christians. ❋ Unknown (1871)
If food is indeed an issue, your watchfulness is your only prayer, so change nothing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
That this should come to him in spite of his watchfulness was a bitter thing. ❋ Frank V. Webster (N/A)
Alexander Filmore came to us and attempted to assassinate us, but my watchfulness was a match for his villainy, and we escaped death at his hands. ❋ Edward L. Wheeler (N/A)
His watchfulness was the observation of a man who learns from all he sees. ❋ Ridgwell Cullum (1905)
He comforted himself, mistakenly, that his watchfulness was the cause that the French had abandoned the attempt against Egypt in force. ❋ Mahan, A. T. (1897)
He not only loved but understood all the creatures, divining by an operation in which neither the sympathy nor the watchfulness was the less perfect that both were but half conscious, the emotions and desires informing their inarticulate language. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
All love, care, providence, devotion, watchfulness, that is in earth or in heaven, in the ministry of men or of angels, is but a reflection and participation of that which is in Him. ❋ 1808-1892 (1847)
I know no one thing makes sin so strong as this, — that we do not apprehend our own weakness, and so give over watchfulness, which is the greatest and best part of our armour of defence, when it is done in faith, and this watch kept on the tower of the ❋ Hugh Binning (1640)
This was a different kind of watchfulness One she didn't seem to mind, except that she had the urge to fix her hair. ❋ Leigh, Jo (2001)
Then the captain and Anthony, having reached a place offshore which promised a good catch, put out their lines and entered at once upon that ecstatic state of watchfulness which is the heritage of the true fisherman. ❋ Temple Bailey (1912)
In his eyes there was always a kind of watchfulness, as if he were taking stock of his interlocutor and weighing him against himself. ❋ Jenkins, Herbert (1912)
There is no door to your homes called "watchfulness," no guard there. ❋ Unknown (1902)
The whole attitude was one of spontaneous, natural, womanly affection, but as Stephen La Mothe looked a second time he seemed to find in it both defence and defiance, or if not defiance, then that vigilant watchfulness which is almost an antagonism. ❋ Hamilton Drummond (1896)
Christian word "watchfulness," -- readiness for the call that may come, whether expectedly or not. ❋ Unknown (1877)
One has been that to be ready means to be perpetually having before us the thought of the coming of the Lord, and that has been taken to be the meaning of the watchfulness which is enjoined in the context. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
You are called upon by the very world that you have come into, and by the very sort of person that you yourself are, to exercise that perpetual watchfulness which is the only condition of cleansing your way. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
