Awe Quotes - Page 35

• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face by the basest of slaves (Jn. 18:22). He gives you an example of victory, yet do you refuse to undergo this at the hands of a man of like passions as yourself? You are ashamed of becoming an imitator of God (Eph. 5:1), how then will you reign with Him and share in His glory in the kingdom of heaven if you do not endure that man?

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Passion, Men

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• Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Kindness, Writing, Miracle

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• Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

  E. W. Howe

  Doe, Clubs, Size

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Events, Horizon

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• I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.

  Katharine Weber

  Powerful, Sea, Sky

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.19, Crown

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• Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.

  David Douglas

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Journey

  David Douglas (1989). “Wilderness Sojourn: Notes in the Desert Silence”, HarperCollins

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• [The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the propositions, the stern elimination of everything not immediately relevant to the purpose, the finish of the whole, are so impressive in their perfection as to create a feeling akin to awe in the mind of the reader.

  Thomas Little Heath

  Math, Perfection, Feelings

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• Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, Soul, Genius

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• It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity with these mighty concepts most certainly does not breed contempt, does not dull our awe at the mightiness of the universe in which we play so small a part. It is very doubtful if any of those who are seriously studying the heavens ever lose their feeling of reverence for this supremely wonderful universe and for Whoever or Whatever must be behind it all.

  Heber Doust Curtis

  Play, Space, Heaven

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• I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light grow reddish across the misty pools, and listened to the troubled voice of the water. After a while I moved farther up the hill, where I could hear birds singing near and far in the silence of the trees. The presence of the trees was very strong...The big oaks stood so many, so massive in their other life, in their deep, rooted silence: the awe of them came on me, the religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Strong, Spring, Light

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

  Jane Jacobs

  Awe And Wonder, Water, Tree

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.65, Vintage

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• What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

  Stacey Snider

  Horse, War, Jaw Dropping

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• Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

  Edward T Welch

  Fear, Biblical, People

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• This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever.

  Bruce Barcott

  Winter, Clouds, Forever

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• The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of Life.

  Gary Zukav

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Caring

  "How Anger and Jealousy Can Be Good for You" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2012.

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• There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

  Paul Pearsall

  Acceptance, Mystery, Inspired

  Paul Pearsall (2007). “AWE: The Delights and Dangers of Our Eleventh Emotion”, p.27, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Awe is the best drug in the world

  Jason Silva

  Drug, World, Overwhelmed

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• We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Children, Awe And Wonder, Failing

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• I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mind, Affirmation, Glory

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• Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Cancer, Years, People

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• You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.

  David Karp

  Office, Guy, Digital Media

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• I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Fashion, New York, Years

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• Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Infinite, Intimacy

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