Quotes about Consciousness

This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.

To continue in atheism, I would need to believe that nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I simply didn't have that much faith.

Every day we make some impact on the planet. And the cumulative effect of millions of small ethical actions will truly make a difference.

Any little thing that brings us back into communion with the natural world and the spiritual power that permeates all life will help us to move a little further along the path of human moral and spiritual evolution.

wisdom involves using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.

Or you agree with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin when he said, 'We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Using our powerful intellect to recognize the consequences of our actions and to think of the well-being of the whole.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.

Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.