Quotes About Awe

And yet-when all we know about it is said and measured and tabulated, there remains something in the soul of the place, the spirit of the whole, that cannot be fully assimilated by the human imagination.

If Delicate Arch has any significance it lies, I will venture, in the power of the odd and unexpected to startle the senses and surprise the mind out of their ruts of habit, to compel us into a reawakened awareness of the wonderful—that which is full of wonder.

There is something about the desert that the human sensibility cannot assimilate, or has not so far been able to assimilate. Perhaps that is why it has scarcely been approached in poetry or fiction, music or painting;

The canyon world becomes each hour more beautiful, the closer we come to its end.

At 13,000 feet nothing else matters.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

Any moment, it seemed, something could tear the sky and whatever was on the other sides would push through.

Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries.

The surprise was total.

I've never met Colin Kaepernick, but he's a hero of mine. I'm in awe that he took it upon himself to publicly promote the American values of life and liberty that we all cherish.

You know, I thought seeing Aretha Franklin last year was amazing, and I didn't think anyone can top that. But if someone can, John Legend would be the man. In my mind, he's a legend, no pun intended.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

It just kind of puts you in awe a lot of times. To see fans, and especially kids, really want a bobblehead or really want your jersey, that's something you only dream of. Sometimes we take it for granted, don't understand the importance of it, how a little bobblehead can make somebody's day.