Quotes About Awe

The artist's secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

You can see the northern lights, he said. They're burning down upon us like a river of melted stars.

Without faith, how open and beautiful and terrifying the world must have seemed

Sans la foi, que le monde avait dû lui paraître grand ouvert, magnifique et terrifiant !

She would never be able to console herself that she was pressured or bullied. She never was. She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back. She was not endowed with, or old enough to possess, such independence or spirit. An imposing congregation had massed itself around her first certainties, and now it was waiting and she could not disappoint it at the altar.

He said he'd met a girl with stardust on her robe, and when he looked into her eyes, he saw the universe looking back.

I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.

When you're the younger brother, usually it's not that common that you're having these experiences that your older brother is in awe of.

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.

It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

If something has not been part of your dreams or ambitions, then you are not awestruck by it.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!

I'd do the Mount St. Helen's trick, where the smoke comes out of the top. I wouldn't even have to look at people. I'd hear that 'Ahhhh!'

We still seem to trigger that intensity in people, which was quite incredible.

When I was 8 years old, there was a showcase of all the instruments you can learn at my school. This guy was playing the trumpet. I heard it and was like 'Oof I got to learn to play.' The sound - everything was amazing. I was blown away.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you.

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.