Quotes About Awe

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.

My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

The mighty miracles of the Lord are marvellous!

I'm glad I'm not good compared to God, because if I was, He wouldn't be much of a god.

We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often the way becomes the goal.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

Awe and respect are two different things.

I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

There's no other way to look at you. You're the definition of beauty.

Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash? saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?

They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every thousand, every ten thousand years? Maybe we just haven't heard about them up to now because this very day is that once-in-a-thousand-years.

When Li Bai turned back to poetry, the clouds rose in formation to see him off, the river stood as witness, and the monkeys cheered for him. The landscape itself stood aside to make way for his passage. His increasingly weighty ship of life was transformed back to a light skiff.

Beautiful things always intimidate me [...] More than that, they drag me down. How can that be? Is it a superstition that beauty elevates mankind?