Quotes About Awe

her feet and legs. The children are silent, as if awed by the sound. "A fuel tank in a house on Seventh Street," she

To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

It is time we realized that we need not be unreasonable to suffuse our lives with love, compassion, ecstasy, and awe; nor must we renounce all forms of spirituality or mysticism to be on good terms with reason

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The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.

Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that he insinuates his sentiments and taste into their minds by an imperceptible influence. Johnson writes like a teacher. He dictates to his readers as if from an academical chair. They attend with awe and admiration; and his precepts are impressed upon them by his commanding eloquence.

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise.

Then we all sat around; we were supposed to be awed. I was brattishly unawed.

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink colour, like the water of a watermelon, that did it. At once I recognised the importance of this, as throughout my life I had known these moments when the dumb begin to speak, when I hear the voices of objects and colours; then the physical universe starts to wrinkle and change and heave and rise and smooth, so it seems even the dogs have to lean against a tree, shivering.

The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement. ? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours . (The M.I.T. Press; 1st edition March 15, 1970) Originally published 1810.

Jakie? maj? prawo Do mnie te gwiazdy na górze ?e si? na mnie gapi??

Een engel! - Jaja, dat zegt iedereen over de zijne, is het niet? Maar ik ben nu eenmaal niet in staat je te vertellen hoe volmaakt ze is, waarom ze volmaakt is; laat het je genoeg zijn dat ze op al mijn gedachten beslag heeft gelegd.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Nothing I have ever read before or since contains such a mood of pure unearthliness. Wraiths and Dark Lords and devils from fantasy stories seem quaint and old-fashioned, and are more likely to invoke nostalgia rather than awe; aliens from science fiction stories share our laws of nature, and come from our universe. The inhuman presences and monsters of the Night Land, on the other hand, are cloaked in impenetrable mystery.

Would the Lord have dressed the flowers with a beauty that runs freely to meet our eyes if it were wrong to be moved by such beauty? Would He have endowed them with so sweet a fragrance that flows freely into our nostrils if it were wrong to be moved by the pleasantness of such fragrance?

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God.

Sense of Wonder (...) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe.

Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd.

I like to do films that celebrate life.