Quotes about Awe

Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways, making impossible the denial of its presence.

All you had to do was look up at the stars at night or at a baby's face to know God existed.

The naked woman's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

There is nothing so inspiring to a man as a beautiful woman.

Cultivate admiration.

I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

But what, without the social thought of thee, Would be the wonders of the sky and sea?

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.