Quotes about Awareness

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.