Quotes about Awareness

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.

Praying anywhere can easily become praying nowhere, just as praying anytime can easily become praying at no time. Everything in general becomes nothing in particular.

Right Response to Reality—the Three R's—is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.

that habituation is a slow, imperceptible sinking, whose point of no return is not clearly marked.

Reason is His voice, His interior prophet, in our souls. We call that prophet conscience. (St. Thomas used two terms for it: "synderesis" was the awareness of its reality and truth and authority and rules, and "conscience" was the application of it. We use "conscience" for both.) Conscience is essentially the power of reason to know good and evil.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.

Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.

Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). The more aware we are of His impending return, the more motivated we'll be in our work for Him in these last days.

A critical person seldom recognizes his own shortcomings, only those of others (Matthew 7:3).