Quotes About Awe

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.

There is an intelligence at work in my body. I am in awe. I had, until then, been pretty certain my brain ran everything. Not so, said the wise labouring body. Not so.

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

The point at which God asserted his greatness to his chosen people was when he arranged the escape of the Jews from Egypt, where they were kept as slaves. One reading of the story of Exodus is that it was not so much about freeing the Israelites from slavery as about asserting God's greatness by establishing a people beholden to him and ensuring that they—and others—were in awe of his power. Under this interpretation, the Exodus story becomes a gigantic manipulation.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

impressed with a designer to the point of intimidation

All the time nature is trying to tell us things and we blur her greatness with our little thoughts, our feebleness and flesh.

May you learn to appreciate the magic of a firefly and the majesty of a mountain.

Amazon is as much a complex planning mechanism based in human ingenuity as it is an inhuman place to work. Some 150 years later, we have much the same reaction of awe and terror at the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism as had Marx in the face of its Victorian antecedent.

When you're here, in a place like Bamiyan, with such a giant blue sky draped above you, other places seem so tiny.

Admiration.

Consideration and Esteem surely follow command of Language as Admiration waits on Beauty

I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me.

I am feeling wonder and awe about this incredible world we live in. And the truth is, we're destroying it before we've even finished learning about it.

I am feeling wonder and awe about this incredible world we live in. And the truth is, we're destroying it before we've even finished learning about it. We think we are smarter than nature, but we are not. Our human intellect is amazing, but we must be humble and recognize that there is an even greater intelligence in nature.

And there are times when I lie on my back in some quiet place and look up and up and up into the heavens as the stars gradually emerge from the fading of day's light. And I see myself, a tiny speck of consciousness in the enormity of the universe.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you do not understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.

I saw that miracles were shocking, as overwhelming as disasters

I'm still in awe of Madhuri. I've grown up watching her movies, and to see her in a film like 'Dedh Ishqiya,' which is quite unlike her previous work, was wonderful.

Alison Pill is the unsung hero of 'Three Tall Women' to me. She's extraordinary in this part, and she makes it look easy. I'm just in awe of her.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

I don't want to feel like the cool kid in the crowd who doesn't want to do what the artist's saying. I want to be so in awe of the artist that I'm literally jumping up and down, even if I've got on brand new Louboutins.

I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours.