Quotes about Awe

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given—it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born.

Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

All you had to do was look up at the stars at night or at a baby's face to know God existed.

The naked woman's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

There is nothing so inspiring to a man as a beautiful woman.

Cultivate admiration.

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

But what, without the social thought of thee, Would be the wonders of the sky and sea?

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty.