Quotes about Awe

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Be awed by the Power and the Glory of My Spirit within you! Though

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?

The idea that the God of the universe would humble himself to touch the lives of any of us is, in the end, far beyond our full comprehension.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

The meaning of awe is to realize that life takes place under wide horizons, horizons that range beyond the span of an individual life or even the life of a nation, a generation, or an era. Awe enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.

Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.

Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.