Awe Quotes - Page 8

• Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Heart, Trying

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

  Erich Fromm

  Respect, Unique, Individuality

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.26, A&C Black

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• Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

  William Penn

  Children, Evil, Mind

  William Penn (1793). “Fruits of a Father's Love: being the Advice of William Penn to his children, relating to their civil and religious conduct, etc. With a preface, signed J. R., i.e. Sir John Rodes”, p.4

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• When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

  Gary Danielson

  College, Iron, Watches

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• Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

  Barnett Newman

  Dream, Communication, Men

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

  James Trefil

  Nature, Taken, Law

  James S. Trefil (2003). “The Nature of Science: An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Governing Our Universe”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

  Paul Goldberger

  Sadness, Delight, Matter

  Paul Goldberger (2014). “Why Architecture Matters”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced this time and again. My hand seems devoid of myself, and I have nothing to do with what is happening. I just sit there watching in a state of awe and wonderment. And it just flows out by itself.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Time, Hands, Justice

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• It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them.

  Tench Coxe

  Powerful, People, Second Amendment

  "An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States IV". Publication by Tench Coxe, teachingamericanhistory.org. October 21, 1788.

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• I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they’ve created value in the world.

  Kevin Systrom

  Artist, Reality, Ideas

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• Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

  Francis Collins

  Believe, Evolution, Reason

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something."

  Thomas Berry

  Spiritual, Expression, Soul

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.25, Crown

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• Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

  Michael Lerner

  Fighting, Genuine Love, Awe And Wonder

  Michael Lerner (2000). “Spirit Matters”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Night, Years, Psychics

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• When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Men, Essence

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• The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Skills, Gloves, Language

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• I am mentally preparing myself for the five-year-old mind. I want to come down to their physical limitations and up to their sense of wonder and awe.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Years, Mind, Want

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• Watch with awe and amazement at how quickly an engineer will become totally annoyed by inefficiency.

  Rands

  Annoyed, Watches, Amazement

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• The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Feelings, Recognition, Mystery

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• Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Growing Up, Shoes, Clothes

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• A person truly evolves from his own silence and one such can keep the people around him in the awe of silence.

  Gopichand Lagadapati

  People, Silence, Evolve

  FaceBook post by Gopichand Lagadapati from Jan 06, 2014

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• My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.

  Gabriel Macht

  Father, Stories, Actors

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

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• Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence... We discover the relationship which is the basis for all feelings of reverence, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful... Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Da-sein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself.

  Medard Boss

  Powerful, Feelings, Everyday

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• If you draw the entire timeline of humanity from the time humans first trod until today, let's just assume that's 10 feet on a timeline. My time on that timeline is so small that you couldn't point it out. Let's say it's smaller than a grain of sand, in that whole 10-foot timeline of humanity. And when I lost my hearing, it happened to coincide with human technology advancing to the point that the cochlear implant existed. If I had lost my hearing five years earlier, I would have had to quit my job. I would have lost my career. I've always been kind of in awe of that reality.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Technology, Reality, Humanity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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