Quotes about Awe

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Let him who is about to accuse God consider the greatness of the God accused.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN

As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

It is my opinion that the greatest absence in the church today is the fear of God.

When I sit up here... I'm just blown away God even notices us...

When you come into contact with, become aware of, or have a revelation of the holiness of God, there is only one appropriate response: worship. Without such a revelation, we cannot really have worship. We can have a song service, but we do not enter into worship until we have a revelation, however inadequate it may be, of the holiness of God. And the holiness of God is not to be explained. It cannot be defined. It can only be revealed.

As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course.… We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.1

I want my life to defy human explanation.

Lord, everywhere I look I see signs of how great You are. Thank You for Your amazing creation, including me!

All true worship is anchored in a reverence for His presence.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.