Quotes about Awe

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot.

Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.

A voice hissed: He sheds tears! It was taken around the ring Usal gives moisture to the dead! He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

In that instant, Paul saw how Stilgar had been transformed from the Fremen naib to a creature of the Lisan al-Gaib, a receptacle for awe and obedience. It was a lessening of the man, and Paul felt the ghost-wind of the jihad in it.

There is the difference between us," he said. "You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.