Quotes about Awareness
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
Every person, therefore, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find him.
— John Calvin
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
— John Calvin
As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
— John Donne
Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him...
— John Donne