Quotes About Awe

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

The opening scene in A New Hope, when you see the huge ship, it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on... that is like a joke of awesomeness.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

Did anyone else have these moments of amazement over the existence of humanity, when they are in awe of how they are here, and alive, even if it's only for a short while?

It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.

Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.

Randy and I were goggle-eyed as we gazed over the wonders of what Walt Disney had wrought. It was a magnificent demonstration of what God could do if He had more imagination.

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you.

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: 'Have you HEARD THIS?

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.