Quotes About Great Awakening

#1. Great doubt: great awakening. Little doubt: little awakening. No doubt: no awakening. - Zen mantra

Barry L. Duncan

#2. After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

Huston Smith

#3. So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.

Julius Sumner Miller

#5. We need a revival in the country," Paul said. "We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'

Rand Paul

#6. We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

Ted Cruz

#7. At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Hakuin Ekaku

#8. We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

Ted Cruz

#9. During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

Zhuangzi

#10. The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and laid the ethical basis for the emancipation of women, the reforms of the New Deal and, later, the civil rights movement.

Charles Murray

#11. A great Awakening has begun. People around the world are opening their eyes to their own spiritual natures. They are beginning to see who they truly are and what they have always been-beings with an eternal past and a glorious future.

Betty Eadie

#12. Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.

Rabia Basri

#13. Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'.

Nancy Pearcey

#14. When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.

Zhuangzi

#15. The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

Khalil Gibran

#16. Though pigs have been proven susceptible to a porcine spongiform encephalopathy, the National Pork Producers Council claims that no naturally occurring cases of 'mad pig' disease have ever been discovered.

Michael Greger

#17. I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that impressed me -because I love to talk about ice - is that it has a color.

Ira Flatow

#18. Watching that great ship fly up, and up, and up against the night was an awakening, a vivid flash of something like God, something more powerful than nature itself. And it is us. And we know. We who have seen.

Charles Pellegrino

#19. Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance.

Alan Cohen

#20. Sometimes it seems that bad luck always flows like the sea to me. Hardly has one wave of bad luck subsided, when another washed into my life.

Chun Yu Wang

#21. Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

William James

#22. Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend the great silence, and demonstrate an appreciative thanks to everyday of life by living in a rapt state of attentive awareness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#23. Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.
It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Judith Olney

#24. It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your own family, your own class, your own race, your own neighborhood - that is one of the great gifts that art affords.

Dana Gioia

#25. True education is awakening a love for truth ... opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life.

David O. McKay

#26. All great men and women had experienced times of wilderness,these moments precedes the dawn of self awakening, greatest potential and success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. I was worried that we'd broken you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#28. Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

Hakuin Ekaku

#29. A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

Kate Jacobs

#30. My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television

Jean Paul Gaultier

#31. No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.

J. Edwin Orr

#32. As a human being, I know of no greater example of success than someone who is self-sustaining through using his passion in the service of others.

Chris Matakas

#33. I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.

Sam Hamill

#34. The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

Jack London

#35. While overseeing tonight's dinner party, I finally found myself in the presence of Mr. Edwards's famed wit when he asked me whether I had visited the zoo to see the puffins. Somehow Miss Wyndham was the one forced to leave the house.

Tarun Shanker

#36. Be the business never so painful you may have done it for money

Thomas Fuller

#37. For each of us, there comes a time when we must awaken and become what we were born to become.

Seth Adam Smith