Quotes about Awe

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

Hearing Sonny Rollins live... that was really amazing. There were so many things that really blew me away at that time [of schooling].