Quotes About Awe

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

I want people to treasure light.

I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these... treasures.

I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

The reason I can give wonder is that I feel wonder about the world: the stars, a tree, my body - everything.

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creator's power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the 'impossible' position.

She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.

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

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.

Wonder is humankind's primal emotion

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

To behold Queen Gwenhwyvar and the Lady of the Lake together was to peer too long into the sun's brilliant dazzle, to feel the heart lurch in the breast for yearning, to have the words stolen from the tongue before the lips could speak them.

There's an ancient term, widely used by writers of Celtic spirituality. It talks of 'thin places'; places where the gap between earth and heaven is said to be very narrow; places where you can sense God more strongly than in the mundane monotony of

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.

I was at a film premiere that George Clooney was attending and I was very star-struck. We weren't having a long conversation or anything, but I was definitely slightly in awe of him.

Oh my God, I'd love to meet the other Masters in 'Doctor Who'. They're such fantastic actors I'd be slightly in awe of them.

At times I beheld visions of dazzling beauty—visions so rapturous, so unearthly, that no artist will ever paint them.

Many reports are given of deep mystical experiences," he wrote, "but their chief characteristic is the wonder at one's own profundity.

Ineffability is of course a hallmark of the mystical experience. "The awareness transcends any particular sensory modality," he explained, unhelpfully. Was it scary? "There was no terror, only fascination and awe.

An experience of awe appears to be an excellent antidote for egotism.

once described a spiritually "realized being" as simply a person with "an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.