Quotes about Awareness

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

Faith is not a means to something further. It is not something we do in order to get to heaven. Faith is its own end. To have faith is already to have come alive.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

It is not repentance that saves me; repentance is the sign that I realise what God has done in Christ Jesus.

We may assume that we are in control of our responses to the world, but that's far from the case. If two people can see the same thing and have opposite reactions, their responses are controlling them, not the other way around.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.