Quotes About Awe

I could stare at this forever: swirling stars in the background and a human being, a real live human, lost in a task.

Wow!" I say. This is a new Algonquian word I learned from Namontack. Wow is their word for wonder and awe

She was awed by the privilege. She accepted the disciplines.

I glanced up at him. I love things that are beautiful when you don't expect them to be.

What kind of dog is that? I would always give the same answer: She's a brown dog. Similarly, when the question is raised, What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God.

He seemed to live in a state of uninterrupted marvel

Because when it all comes together, it's amazing. When it all comes together, the only thing you can do is bow down in gratitude, as if you have been granted an audience with the divine. Because you have.

What kind of God do you believe in? my answer is easy: I believe in a magnificent God

One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has changed, yet you feel stirred by a grace, swollen with wonder, overflowing with bliss. Everything - for no reason whatsoever - is perfect.

I've spent my entire life chasing wonder, and to me that word is synonymous with spirituality.

I believe in a magnificent God.

What kind of God do you believe in?' my answer is easy: 'I believe in a magnificent God.

It all called to mind the British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington's memorable explanation of how the universe works: "Something unknown is doing we don't know what." But the best part is: I don't need to know what.

The only people who are not in awe of Emerson's powerful voice and well-nigh superhuman strength are the members of his own family. He is aware of this, and often complains about it; so from time to time I like to put on a little show of being intimidated. 'Proceed, my dear,' I said apologetically.

And when I'm with you, she said, I feel as if I were stuffed with—oh, with stars.

Can one be bored in a world so wonderful?

Then, all of a sudden, there was a great black hull, stretching farther than my eye could see.

The rollers that raced shoreward were perhaps 40 feet high, maybe more.

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ring'd with the azure world he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Now, if God made the clouds so beautiful, did He not mean us to gaze upon them and be thankful for them?

Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own.

He is Fright!" she said in an awed whisper. "But never talk about him again unless you can help it; he always knows when he's being talked about, and he liked it, because it gives him more power.

ambitious people awe some and terrify others!