Awe Quotes - Page 24

• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

  Rob Bell

  Interesting, Looks, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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• Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Children, Pain

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Beautiful, Two, Perception

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• Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

  Michael Lerner

  Creativity, School, Caring

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• Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mother, Kindness, Children

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• The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

  Herbert Simon

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Fear

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• About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the presence of His Majesty, we broke out with one voice, 'We praise Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.'

  John Wesley

  Morning, Prayer, Voice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works...”, p.117

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• By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

  Matthew Fox

  Gratitude, Cutting, Awe And Wonder

  "The Reinvention of Work". Book by Matthew Fox, New York: Harper, p. 128, 1994.

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• Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

  Matthew Fox

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• We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humility, Way, Spirit

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• There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.

  Frank McCourt

  Art, Miracle, Atmosphere

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• The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

  Sam Harris

  Elude Us, Understanding, Depth

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Wall

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people take on themselves not only a risk of death but also pain-and-suffering in order for their loved one to get the benefit of the liver transplant.

  John Roberts

  Pain, Order, People

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Car, Police, Motorcycle

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• Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Self, Reverence, Accord

  "Uncommon Knowledge - Dr. Ursula Goodenough" by Jeannette Batz Cooperman, www.stlmag.com. July 2005.

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• Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mean, Innovation, Doubt

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• Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

  Phil Plait

  Stuff, Sometimes, Figures

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• I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that they need to be making and they have to have the complete overall look of what the piece of artwork is.

  Dominic Cooper

  Air, Decision, Pieces

  "Exclusive Interview: Dominic Cooper Talks 'Reasonable Doubt'". www.moviesonline.ca. November 16th, 2017.

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• Awe is the emotion of self-transcendence.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Self, Emotion, Transcendence

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.202, Basic Books

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• In my work, it's simultaneously realities, instead of parallel. Simultaneous avoids the problem of alternate reality. In parallel reality, there's always a hierarchy, and there doesn't necessarily have to be a hierarchy. When you're in a palace like Blenheim, you're supposed to be in awe - why not be in awe of something different than the stuff they're showing you? It's about finding your own existential place.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Reality, Why Not, Alternate Realities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

  Jane Goodall

  Thinking, Faithful, Want

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 27, 2009.

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