Quotes About Awe

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It's the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can't be packaged, and it can't be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

The more we learn about the planet, the stranger it becomes to us.

He was immense. Long and thick and hard, the club of his sex rose from between his thighs. I know I said before that I always thought a man's penis is the most ridiculous part of him but there was nothing ridiculous about this. Intimidating was a word that came to mind. Also frightening, scary, and oh-my-God-how-is-he-going-to-fit-that-thing-inside-me? Well,

I'm not religious, but I feel like there has to be a higher power up there.

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

It saddens me that Christians need to be reminded that awe is owed also to those who disagree with them, who believe otherwise than they do.

Because you are seen on the screen, whether big or small, the people in remote places are in complete awe of you.

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

The Internet never ceases to impress me.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

I'm just always impressed with what Gwen pulls off. She's amazing.

I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.

I was reminded of the Winchester Mystery House, which I'd seen as a child on a trip with my parents. From above, there was the same sort of random conglomeration—peaked roofs connected to flat roofs, shakes and shingles, tarpaper and skylights—and I realized that Frank had constructed his house from the town, connecting the buildings until they made one enormous edifice. "Jesus," I breathed.

where mountains are sacred & where risk & death are constant companions- the Himalayas.

How can I explain it to you, so you would understand? I've seen everything . . . and I've hardly been away from this yard. I've seen cathedrals in the snow on the Lombardy poplars. I've seen the sun set behind the Alps over there when the clouds have been piled up on the edge of the prairie. I've seen the ocean billows in the rise and the fall of the prairie grass.

Herodotus, the 'Father of History', records the moment – and you can hear the emotion in his voice as he does so, a mixture of horror and awe: Then Kleisthenes took into his faction the common people.19

The ways of the Lord are filled with wonder and mystery.

Seeing Your great effulgent and various-colored form touching the sky; Your mouth wide open and large shining eyes; I am frightened and find neither peace nor courage, O Krishna.

In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

And as I listened, happily, while also taking in the great beauty of my surroundings - "an attack of beauty

Beauty stops traffic.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

we really do live on an unbearably beautiful planet. We don't think of it often as a planet - - we live our daily lives on flat and often prosaic ground, and when we're in the air, the flight attendant usually makes us lower the window shade so as not to interfere iwth the movie.