Quotes about Awe

Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.

“For our God is a consuming fire.”

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and a great earthquake the likes of which had not occurred since men were upon the earth—so mighty was the great quake.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.

The work of God in the cross of Christ strikes us as awe-inspiring only after we have first been awed by the glory of God.

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.