Awe Quotes

565 Awe quotes by 458 unique authors

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect,… — Alexander Smith
Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of… — Carl Sagan
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he… — A. E. Housman
[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of… — William J. Clinton
Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that… — Rajneesh
The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry… — Rollo May
The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as… — Abraham Maslow
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love… — Debbie Ford
Call it "womb awe" or even "womb worship" but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of… — Sam Keen
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person… — Abraham Maslow
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe… — Lise Meitner
Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of… — George Eliot
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me… — Lorna Luft
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine
We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe. — Anne Robinson
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that… — Celia Thaxter
I build molecules for a living. I can't begin to tell you how difficult that job is. I stand in awe of God because of… — Unknown Author
...every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable… — Gregory Palamas
We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy… — William J. Clinton
The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark. — Rajneesh

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