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Quotes About Awe

The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
It was very strange that I, who knew the whole extent of space and time, and counted the wandering stars like sheep, overlooking none, but I who was the most awakened of all beings, I, the glory which myriads in all ages had given their lives to establish, and myriads had worshipped, should now look about me with the same overpowering awe, the same abashed and tongue-tied worship as that which human travelers in the desert feel under the stars.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Zapewne dziwi? si? tej pot??nej plamie organicznej materii, która nagle dokona?a inwazji z nieba na ich owadzi ?wiat.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
who look on the world and the universe they are born in with quite other eyes. To
~ Oliver Lodge
Awe and respect are two different things.
~ Oliver Reed
God calls people to himself, but this call is no casual suggestion. He is so awe inspiring and his summons so commanding that only one response is appropriate—a response as total and universal as the authority of the Caller. Thus
~ Os Guinness
The color of this sky, what would you call it? Rose? Flame? Iridescent? The color of angel's wings? Or a huge temple? No, it is none of these things. It is much more sublime.
~ Osamu Dazai
Forget about all the women in the world. I can't even deal with one girl next door and I'm in such pain I feel like I'm going to die. And never mind my superior capabilities—I don't know the first thing about governing a kingdom. And as for people gazing at me in wonderment, well, all they do is deceive me. All that happens is they swindle me. I'm endlessly afraid of people. I am continually awed by them.
~ Osamu Dazai
For the first time in my life, I want to bow my head to the heavens.
~ Osamu Dazai
Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.
~ Osho
I look upward ignorantly but reverently at the white host of heaven. Even the astronomer who peers through the magic glasses must go in peril of losing his mysterious awe in a tangle of mathematical calculations.
~ Unknown
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
~ Pablo Picasso
Oh my stars!
~ Pamela Clare
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
~ Pamela Hansford Johnson
They were staring at the gleaming guadrangle as though awaiting an oracle's reply.
~ Unknown
Car un homme nait croyant comme un lapin est ébloui par les phares
~ Unknown
If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.
~ Unknown
He was reading . I was struck dumb with amazement.
~ Unknown
after the rain bomb craters filled with stars - John Brandi
~ Unknown
She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.
~ Patrick Carman
We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
the fear of God is the reverence we give to God Almighty because He has the power and authority to give us what we do deserve. The
~ Unknown
Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains." She shakes her head in a happy way. "If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.
~ Patrick Ness
THERE IT IS,' my mother says, and what she means is that the dot we've been nearing for weeks, the one that's been growing into a larger dot with two smaller dots circling it, has now become even larger than that, growing from a dot to a disc, shining back the light from its sun, until you can see the blue of its oceans, the green of its forests, the white of its polar caps, a circle of colour against the black beyond.
~ Patrick Ness