Quotes about Awareness
None of us wants to see the truth of what is right in front of us, do they? But for our protection, we must not sugar-coat the truth. We must have the courage to see people for what they are.
- Sandra Byrd
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
- John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
- John Adams
Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions. It is possible to intend one thing while communicating something totally different. Sometimes our true motives are cleverly hidden even from us.
- John Bevere
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
- John Bunyan
As a consequence, we must infer that man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
- John Calvin
On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.
- John Calvin
On the other hand, it is well known that a person never comes to the clear knowledge of himself unless he has first contemplated the face of the Lord, and afterward descended to consider himself.
- John Calvin
Accordingly, the knowledge of ourselves not only arouses us to seek God, but also, as it were, leads us by the hand to find him.
- John Calvin
For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.
- John Calvin
when we are angered by the sins of others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should take possession of our minds.
- John Calvin
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
- John Calvin