Quotes about Awakening

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost.

Revival is not just an emotional touch; it's a complete takeover!

You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

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.

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

That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed, Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

And on their naked limbs the flowry roof/Show'r'd Rose, which the Morn repair'd.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumbered, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam;

The business in hand being to awake the whole man unto a consideration of the state and condition wherein he is, that he might be brought home to God, instead hereof he sets himself to mortify the sin that galls him, -- which is a pure issue of self-love, to be freed from his trouble, and not at all to the work he is called unto, -- and so is diverted from it.

The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.