Quotes about Awe

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17

You are always new to me.

We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.

When Joy grew mad with awe, at counting future tears.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.