Quotes About Awe

They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.

He struggled to overcome his vertigo; he made it something else. No less awe, but less fear. He took what was like fear in him, and made it humility. I'm damn small, he thought, hanging like a mote of dust in still air, in a sea that's damn big. But that's alright. I can do that.

Everything's fit to be worshipped.

he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the world, straining to swallow him.

Curiosity = Wonder + Awe

Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?

The massive scale of Walmart—its $444 billion revenue in 2012 amounts to $64 for every person on earth—inspires a complicated mixture of emotions: awe, fear, admiration, and loathing.

When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?

To see awe in a parent's eyes—it is a strange, lonely feeling.

I think I was most envious of him then. He had been in the presence of a great and blissful mystery. He had glimpsed the truth of existence that extended beyond this oscillating world of pleasure and sorrow. I lay awake all night, my soul hungering to know what he had known.

There are things you can only say with a canyon. Or smoke moving across a vally toward the mist.

There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields.

My definition of magic emphasizes human connections with the universe, so that people are open to the workings of the universe and the universe is responsive to us.

It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

Trio Los Panchos and listened to the requinto player, we said, 'Shit, this guy

When Moses heard the voice of God, he shook with terror and hid his face in the folds of his robe. Why? Because he was about to receive a couple of chapters of the book of Exodus? No! He was awestruck because the voice he heard made real and immediate the presence of the Holy One of Israel. In the words, Moses met God. And so can we.

But this vast empty room was the loneliest, most awful place he had ever been. Its

I have read your fantastical book "Mirror Mirror" with awe and applause! Working with you on my regional TV show for a year was a godsend...you are an inspiration. All success.

Mjafton vetëm tu hedhësh nga një vështrim serioz dhe të ëmbël, katedralja e erotikës, para së cilës ata bien në gjunjë...

shall always remember the next day for one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had. As we marched forward we caught sight, after a while, of the gleaming golden towers of a monastery in the far distance. Above them, shining superbly in the morning sun, were tremendous walls of ice, and we gradually realised that we were looking at the giant trio Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu. As

When you're out on the bare ocean and you see a whale breach and blow, you've seen glory.

She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, la que tiene en sí el único milagro viviente que existe en la tierra.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.