Awaken Quotes

“Your view, no matter how breathtaking and beautiful or how grim and dismal, is not the full scope of reality. Whatever is seen—all that can be measured or documented or quantified with the five physical senses or through the lens of your current emotional state—is not all that is meant to be seen. The physical cannot fully grasp the comprehensiveness of the spiritual. God’s work is behind the scenes, beyond all the obvious readouts. If we limit the scope for our hopefulness to what’s immediately visible, we’ll get an inaccurate reading on any scenario we’re seeking to evaluate. Believers must live by faith, by believing what they cannot yet see.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“Is your heart fixed today to recognize the presence of God? To see His fingerprints and hear His voice? The events that others call coincidence, will you recognize them as sovereign providence? Ask the Lord to sharpen your spiritual senses so that you catch a glimpse of His glory. Focus your expectation. Lean forward or on tiptoe. Resist the inclination to be so caught up in the temporal that you miss seeing the eternal. Scan the horizon for where His voice is calling out to you or where His fingerprints are working on your behalf. Be alert. Be present. Be fully engaged in the day stretched out before you. He’ll be there. Waiting to be seen by anyone watching and waiting.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier in one’s life. As the years pass, the hidden treasure to be found in humble and unpretentious virtues becomes more accentuated—things like rest, silence, and the joy of an ordinary day. The attraction toward activity and achievement lessens, becoming slowly, steadily, and appropriately replaced by an interest in more internal matters.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“Quiet time is not an excuse for the lazy but a wise investment for the diligent. It is for those who are committed to being active servants and followers of Jesus Christ instead of slaves to the tyranny of urgent busyness and activity. By prioritizing rest for ourselves and those we love, we may just rediscover the joy we thought had been lost forever.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“Ask the Lord to break your heart for what breaks His, and then ask Him to stir in you a sense of active compassion that makes you too uncomfortable to sit by and do nothing.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“Run the race not only with endurance and diligence, but also with careful, watchful submission to His Word.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“Quiet time is not an excuse for the lazy but a wise investment for the diligent.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“In the morning, O Lord, You will hear my voice; in the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch. Psalm 5:3”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“Start each day and each decision with an immediate declaration of complete dependence on Him.”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks

“Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything.
pg. 144”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God who Speaks

“around, “some of the people went out to gather” anyway (Exod. 16:27). Why did they do this? More personally, why do we? We’re constantly gathering and producing and spending and eating and collecting and keeping and hoarding—beyond what we should, beyond what we need—instead of genuinely enjoying and appreciating what God has already done, instead of trusting that He is our ultimate provider and will sustain us when we honor His boundaries. Like ancient Israel, we tend to overextend, reaching”
― Priscilla Shirer, Awaken: 90 Days with the God Who Speaks