Quotes about Awareness
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
- Victor Hugo
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
- John Ortberg
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
- Marcus Aurelius
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
- St. Anthony of Padua
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
- Victor Hugo
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
- Brother Lawrence
It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.
- St. John Chrysostom
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
- Brother Lawrence
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
- Charles Stanley
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
- Madeleine L'Engle