Quotes About Awe

Now, what I know makes me look down at the ground. I can almost feel how the owl's beauty scared the mice to death, how the shadow of her wings was a god passing over the grass. from 'Tree Ghost

The reporters merely gaped. Dumb with awe, they trailed Rorke into a bedroom which was a decorator's dream: smooth wallpaper of softest gray, mauve gauze at the windows, a spread of royal purple velvet on a colossal bed, striking slashes of magenta and chartreuse in upholstery and overdrapes.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." —Albert Einstein

Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

Holy crap!" he said. "That's a big dog." "Yes," said Baba. "But a small dragon.

There was nothing quite so humbling as Job 38 and 39.

If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "Its just a tree." "No," Merlin said. "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.

by understanding the forces that shape coincidences, you can come to influence those forces and create your own set of meaningful coincidences, take advantage of the opportunities they present, and experience life as a constantly unfolding miracle that inspires awe in every moment. Most

Deliver thunder, God, if you choose not to talk.

The holy world glows like a lightening bug.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!.

Do not dissect a rainbow. In other words, do not destroy a beautiful phenomenon by overanalyzing it.

That Passeth All Understanding" An awe so quiet I don't know when it began. A gratitude had begun to sing in me. Was there some moment dividing song from no song? When does dewfall begin? When does night fold its arms over our hearts to cherish them? When is daybreak?

I am so small, a speck of dust moving across the huge world. The world a speck of dust in the universe. Are you holding the universe? You hold onto my smallness. How do you grasp it, how does it not slip away? I know so little. You have brought me so far.

Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.

An awe so quiet I don't know when it began. A gratitude had begun to sing in me. Was there some moment dividing song from no song? When does dewfall begin? When does night fold its arms over our hearts to cherish them? When is daybreak?

The Book of Revelation wages war on the reductionism that chokes awe.

John's vision of the One sitting on the throne and of the Lamb is permeated with their supreme worthiness (Rev. 4:11; 5:9-10, 12; cf. 4:8; 5:13) and therefore by the awe of all who see them.

The death of awe in our culture has left us with an oddly credulous cynicism. We are cynical, suspicious of established government, education, technology, and medicine. Yet our cynicism is the recycled remnant of dashed hopes and broken faith, precisely because, having lost sight of the God who is worthy, we have invested such trust in these institutions to save our civilization and us.

Only one thing that we can see and hear that is absolutely beautiful, and yet so fearfully frightening at the same time, is the Lightning.

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.