Quotes About Awe

I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

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But when you get among such grandeur you get to feel how little you are and how foolish is human endeavor, except that which reunites us with the mighty force called God.

now I know my capacity for awe is infinite: this thirst is permanent, the well bottomless, my good fortune vast.

The universe was very beautiful. I looked out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.

Perhaps what I was feeling was the thing called awe.

Some things he had never managed to become jaded to, and the tenuous beauty of the world was one of those.

The atmosphere of money enfolded Peese like cling film when he entered Jane's apartment. It coated his skin, thick and silken; it slid down his throat like buttermilk. It intimidated. It was meant to.

He was shining dark, and exceeding fair: beautiful and awful, his long hands pale as bones against the red velvet of his coat.

No matter what kind of nonsense is going on around you, the first moment of stepping out of a vehicle into space is always awe-inspiring, the more so here in the Core than elsewhere.

In reality, there's nothing quite like staring into the most enormous black hole in the galaxy, then flying down its gullet like a gnat with attitude.

I look out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.

Cold dark deep and absolutely clear,element bearable to no mortal,to fish and to seals…

They gazed at her with awe, feeling to the full that medieval reverence for someone obviously touched in the head.

The problematic of sexual difference entails a certain failure of knowledge to bridge the gap, the interval, between the sexes. There remains something ungraspable, something outside, unpredictable, and uncontainable, about the other sex for each sex. This irreducible difference under the best conditions evokes awe and surprise; under less favorable conditions it evinces horror, fear, struggle, resistance.

bones and muscles, organs and skin, I want to take care of the gift of my body. I want to feed it well, move it gracefully, and rest it deeply. I know that the life force beats on, even when the heart has stopped, but while I have a heart and lungs, I want to treat them with sacred awe. And while I dwell with others who are just like me, I want to see them for who they really are, in all of their fragility and all of their majesty.

I never could have thought of it, To have a little bug all lit And made to go on wings.

But here was the world, screeching its beauty at her day after day, and she felt grateful for it.

But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the dipping branches of a weeping willow, every breath of breeze that bent the grass towards the row of apple trees, every shower of yellow ginko leaves dropping to the ground with such direct and tender sweetness, would fill the minister with profound and irreducible knowledge that God was right there.

Here is the thing that Cindy, for the rest of her life, would never forget: Olive Kitteridge said, "My God, but I have always loved the light in February." Olive shook her head slowly. "My God," she repeated, with awe in her voice. "Just look at that February light.

could not believe that I was sitting in the sky, and I had to act nonchalant about it, and I tried to. But it was astonishing.

Holy Scripture and Nature are both emanations from the divine Word." Like other Platonists, Galileo didn't have to see God to believe in Him. He only had to feel His perfection in His creation and stand aside in awe.

There was a glow in the sky as if great furnace doors were opened.