Quotes about Awareness
What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.
— John Piper
Most people don't feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.
— John Piper
scientific discovery requires the boldness of provisional commitment to a point of view, while remaining aware that this may require subsequent modification in the light of further experience.
— John Polkinghorne
We are cruel enough without meaning to be.
— John Updike
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
— John Wooden
Listen if you want to be heard
— John Wooden
O that you would realize that each moment is golden.
— Ellen White
It is not the empty cup that we have difficulty in carrying; it is the cup full to the brim that must be carefully balanced.
— Ellen White
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.
— Ellen White
Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.
— Ellen Glasgow
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
— Barack Obama
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen
— Barbara Brown Taylor