Quotes about Awe
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
- Cicero
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
- Francis Chan
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
- Victor Hugo
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
- Mark Twain
The Master said, "If a man of position [junzi] does not have integrity, he will not inspire awe.
- Confucius
Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.
- DH Lawrence
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell
- Walt Whitman
The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much, I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther, But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
- Walt Whitman
The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much, I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther, But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
- Walt Whitman
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle
- Walt Whitman