Quotes about Awareness

Unaware that our culture has subverted our faith, we lose a place from which to judge our own culture

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment." ? Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Poten

Words are an extension of our thoughts, but we are our thoughts. Proverbs 23:7 says, "As [a man] thinks in his heart, so is he" (nkjv). God desires not to talk to you, but to "think" to you. This is what Jesus meant when He said, "I do what I see My Father doing" (John 5:19). The text implies, "I do what I mentally see My Father thinking.

We should never allow our lives to become so hurried or myopic that we ignore the value of the resources around us-especially the people.

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

Beauty matters, dare I say, almost as much as spirituality and justice.

Unless we are constantly aware, in reading the gospels, that they are telling the Jesus story in such a way as to bring out the Israel story, we will never hear their proper harmony.

Anyone who has worked within biblical scholarship knows, or ought to know, that we biblical scholars come to the text with just as many interpretative strategies and expectations as anyone else, and that integrity consists not of having no presuppositions but of being aware of what one's presuppositions are and of the obligation to listen to and interact with those who have different ones.

We cannot and must not soften the blow; we cannot and must not pretend that evil isn't that bad after all.

doing. Was doing now. So Jesus seems to have been standing at the threshold