Quotes about Awe

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration.

The next time you are faced with an insurmountable problem, I'd advise you to look into the heavens on a clear night.

The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He somtimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had given, as a general might gaze upon a massacre he had ordered to satisfy an impersonal blood lust.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.