Quotes About Awe

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it.

In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

I am still in shock and awe at being fired.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

I am made to tremble and I fear!

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Be filled with wonder, be touched by peace.

Ô grandes attitudes de l'homme et de la femme où cherchent à se joindre, dans l'innocence des premiers jours et avec l'humilité de l'argile, ce que la création a séparé, où Eve est étonnée et soumise devant l'homme au côté de qui elle s'éveille, comme lui-même, encore seul, devant Dieu qui l'a formé.

they stand like giants immersed in Time.

I raised my eyes to those flavescent, frizzy locks and felt myself caught in their swirl and swept away, with a throbbing heart, amid the lightning and the blasts of a hurricane of beauty.

Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

fear and wonder makes gods.

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.

People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.

Penny Novack, a Pagan poet, once wrote that glimpses of the One could make her happy, awed, and excited, "but I can't imagine a religion based on it.

Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?