Quotes about Awaken
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
- Hildegard of Bingen
Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:
- Jonathan Edwards
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.
- Samuel Johnson
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.
- Pope Benedict XVI
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
As you awaken, may your dreams greet you by name, and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher