Quotes About Awakening

It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.

I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left.

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice

After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his wrists.

So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

ëWho are You, Lord?í I asked. ëI am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,í He replied.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ëSaul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.í

And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

Do not extinguish the Spirit.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.

On the Lordís day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a reputation for being alive, yet you are dead.

Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.

“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”