Awe Quotes - Page 29

• I did however used to think, you know, in the woods walking, and as a kid playing in the woods, that there was a kind of immanence there — that woods, and places of that order, had a sense, a kind of presence, that you could feel; that there was something peculiarly, physically present, a feeling of place almost conscious ... like God. It evoked that.

  Robert Creeley

  Kids, Thinking, Order

  "Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place: Together with the Poet's Own Autobiography".

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• Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.

  Dave Hunt

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Jesus

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• You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.

  Susan Orlean

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Smart

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• Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.

  Peter Lik

  Photography, Mother, Nature

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• The complaint that church is boring is never made by people in awe.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Church, Boring

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• I do not think science has to make any apologies. It looks at the world and tells it like it is. And we all live longer, better lives because of this dispassionate view. Sure, it commands awe and provides inspiration. Still, I would rather be operated on by a surgeon who sees me as an assemblage of atoms than one who lovingly tries to manipulate what he or she imagines are my vital energy fields.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Inspiration, Apology, Thinking

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• You can't let any team awe you. If you do, you'll wind up a horseshit player.

  Luke Appling

  Team, Player, Wind

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• The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Kings, Philosophy, Wish

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.271, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

  Jason Silva

  Understanding, Intellectual, Brain

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• When God is our Holy Father, sovereignty, holiness, omniscience, and immutability do not terrify us; they leave us full of awe and gratitude. Sovereignty is only tyrannical if it is unbounded by goodness; holiness is only terrifying if it is untempered by grace; omniscience is only taunting if it is unaccompanied by mercy; and immutability is only torturous if there is no guarantee of goodwill.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Gratitude, Father, Grace

  Ravi Zacharias (2002). “Cries of The Heart”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

  Julian Jaynes

  Self, Civilization, Understanding

  "LIFE" Magazine, December 1988.

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• For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

  Diane Paulus

  Ocean, People, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

  John Steinbeck

  Silence, Tree, Feelings

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.105, Penguin

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• There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.

  Charles de Lint

  Memories, Distance, Collective Memory

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• A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life.

  A. L. Rowse

  Morning, Spring, School

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• I've read all the books but one
  Only remains sacred: this
  Volume of wonders, open
  Always before my eyes.

  Kathleen Raine

  Book, Eye, Garden

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.139, SteinerBooks

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• There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Lying, Garden, Religion

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

  John Smith

  Religion, Spirit, Mystical

  John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.467

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• Straight up from this road
  Away from the fitted particles of frost
  Coating the hull of each chick pea,
  And the stiff archer bug making its way
  In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair,
  Up the stem of the trillim,
  Straight up through the sky above this road right now,
  The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster
  Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm
  Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes.
  I try to remember that.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Morning, Archer, Dark

  Pattiann Rogers (2014). “The Expectations of Light”, p.35, Princeton University Press

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• To look at any thing,
  If you would know that thing,
  You must look at it long:
  To look at this green and say,
  "I have seen spring in these
  Woods," will not do - you must
  Be the thing you see:
  You must be the dark snakes of
  Stems and ferny plumes of leaves,
  You must enter in
  To the small silences between
  The leaves,
  You must take your time
  And touch the very peace
  They issue from.

  John Moffitt

  Spring, Dark, Snakes

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• We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Teaching, Use

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• You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at...
  The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.

  Edward Steichen

  Wall, Museums, Typewriters

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• If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.

  Gary Zukav

  Gratitude, Earth, Very Deep

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 13, 2015

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• I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

  Keith Richards

  Beautiful, Song, Reading

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.188, Hachette UK

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