Quotes About Awe

The most beautiful emotion is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our minds cannot grasp: this is religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I am a devoutly religious man.

And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over our grave,' as if a memory had suddenly been rescued from a place deep within us - the recognition of something we never knew was there, or of something we vaguely felt as a flicker or a shadow, whose ghostly form rises and passes back into us before we can see what it is, leaving us older and wiser.

The Savage, wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m---. (Mustapha Mond frowned. Does the fool think I'm too squeamish to see the word written out at full length?)

Quando nos sentimos como se fôssemos os únicos herdeiros do universo, quando o mar corre em nossas veias [...] e as estrelas são nossas jóias, quando todas as coisas parecem infinitas e sagradas, que motivos poderemos ter para a cobiça ou a soberba, para a fome de poder ou para as formas mais doentias de prazer?

Sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.

Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different

The sight of such beauty can make us quiet with fear; fear that it might not be real, fear that it might be taken from us, as is everything that we love, which is only on loan to us.

To despise flowers is to offend God.

meditaba en Hebreos 12:29: «Porque nuestro Dios es un fuego que todo lo consume».

Just as an indescribable sunset or a breathtaking mountaintop vista evokes a spontaneous response, so we cannot encounter the worthiness of God without the response of worship.

Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...

quite the same as approving of it. She wondered, for instance, how Columbus or Magellan would react if they could see them all sitting in comfortable chairs watching a movie in the sky as they crossed the ocean insulated from wind, tides, storm and distance, and without any decent sense of awe. One ought, she felt, to suffer just a little. Not much but a little.

Traditional Blackfeet saw the natural world in terms of awe and mystery. Animals lived in metaphorical relationships to them; the creatures were other nations. Every plant and animal passed coded information to man. Part of the price western science has paid for analytical power is that it has transformed the natural world into something alien.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

We've come up with a lot of strange ideas about what we will do in heaven when we first see Jesus. Some people think they will shake his hand or give him a hug. Some people have questions they want to ask. I think we will do what John did — fall down in awe and wonder and love at Jesus' feet.

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.

a good soldier is a well-informed soldier concerning his enemy. Be infatuated with and in awe of Jesus. Be aware of the enemy. Love worship, not warfare; but when necessary, go to war. And post the sentries!

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration