Sentences with phrase «awe before»

I am always wary of people who's egos are boosted because of their creative talent as generally the reverse should be true and we stand in humble awe before the creativity we have managed to give expression to.

Yet in his art he combined a love of atmospheric perspective, later emulated by the Impressionists, with a sense of awe before nature that the Modernists would have ill - countenanced.

The striking natural formations of the bright red rocks will leave you in awe before you even enter the Garden of the Gods.

You feel awe before you get in... then satisfaction afterwards.

Unlike mystics, who can abide in silence, in awe before the mystery of it all and hence feel at one with the world and be satisfied with the feeling, poets want to communicate their feelings, or at least define them more precisely to themselves.

Those in the New Testament who were deeply attracted to Jesus also felt great awe before him, a sense of distance between their sinfulness and his utter goodness.

Church is like air travel now — it's no longer a big deal because people have lost their sense of awe before God, Fulwiler says.

The man - in - the - street, the pew - sitter, the average layperson, shrinks in awe before the professional communicators who can reach millions through typewriter or tube.

The finest single sentence Kant wrote I take to be his expression of awe before the categorical imperative (which I would formulate somewhat differently) and the starry sky.

It means, furthermore, that we ought not simply to think of the Creator as a First Cause who started things, but that like the biblical writers we too are obligated to bow in reverent awe before «the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy.»

It is to devote oneself to working towards a fully humane world within the ecological restraints here on planet Earth, while standing in piety and awe before the profound mysteries of existence.»

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp.

If we prodigals see the father running in our direction with open arms, we should know in our souls that this as an event so unexpected, so undeserved, so out of joint with all that life should bring us, that we fall down in awe before this joyful mystery.

He will not finally love his son solely because he is his own, but will love only that in his son which is good and which is open to the good, including his son's own capacity for awe before the divine.

He will understand that, like Abraham, only a father who feels awe before the true source can deserve the filial awe - and - reverence of his sons (cf. Noah and his sons).

I stand in awe before the power of nature.

Wonder and awe before the majesty of the Creator, answering a high call to service, being transformed by a Power greater than our own, being aware of a Presence in whose fellowship we find our strength, being reinforced by the divine help so that we triumph over trouble, opening our lives to inspired hours when the best seems the most real — all these are responses to revelations of reality above and beyond ourselves, but nowhere is such revelation so compelling as when it comes incarnate in a person.

The psalmist's response is the most appropriate one: awe before the creator and the creation, wonder at our place in the world.

Not exact matches

Sometimes this has me scratching my head, and other times I'm in awe of these remarkable young people who are perched on the brink of accomplishing things never done before.

«Be it taking a different route to work, talking to a new person, or experimenting with something you haven't before, don't let your curiosity and awe die in the daily grind,» writes Nistha Tripathi

John Michael says they wandered the property in awe for almost an hour before even entering the house.

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After reading Faithful Families (and dog - earing nearly every page for Dan), I felt relieved — relieved I didn't have to understand theodicy before praying a simple blessing over my son's bed at night, relieved I didn't have to know all the answers before staring in awe into a starry sky, relieved I didn't have to be free of doubt to be full of gratitude at our family's «gratitude café.»

Sit in the straw, in a circle of flickering candles, and feel the illuminating awe of God's Word through the unfurling of the greatest love story ever told — Christmas's full love story, right from the beginning of His - Story, like you've never quite heard it told before.

And as we both now stand before this miracle, whose solemn silence can not be perturbed by human wrangling over mine and thine, whose awe - inspiring speech infinitely subdues all human strife about mine and thine, forgive me, I pray, the strange delusion that I was the author of this poem.

It was out of the smoke, fire, cloud, lightning, thunder, earthquake, mystery, magnetism, wonder and awe that accompanied the experience of Israel before that mountain that these Commandments were heard.

We had gotten them the night before, in a candlelit evening that seemed to breathe contentment and awe.

But why should we speculate further about this, when the text itself later tells us exactly what is being tested: the depth of Abraham's awe - fear - reverence before God.

You have to be joking???? Thank God for His Mercy and Patience and the Blood of Jesus that prevented fire coming down from Heaven to consume you... Do you realize with what fear, awe and respect and honor the Israelites had for God; before The Sacrifice of Jesus.

The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood Before the coming of the great and awe - inspiring day of Jehovah.»

Though a disturbing passion which holds one back from the thing feared, awe also holds one fast, attracted, and transfixed before it.

Revelation 6:12,13 Note that these things would happen «before» the «awe - inspiring day of God» so they would be a warning to get people's attention (if they are paying attention) that the day is approaching but it's also said that not even the son knows the day but only the Father and it would be as a thief in the night.

Fifth, Christians choose to use «God» as the symbol for the ultimate mystery of this creative process, so that «life must at all points be lived in awe and respect before the ultimate mystery of things.

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

There is no awe here before the dread majesty of God, and no respect for the Holy Table at which Christ is wrapped in linen and His most Precious Blood poured out, where heaven opens and angels throng about us, bringing earth and heaven together... the mere sound of singing is preferred to the meaning of the words that are sung».

it gave me whole new sense of awe for the early works that I never had before.

Shame implies the peculiarly human concern with self - perfection, guilt the sense of personal responsibility, whereas awe recognizes powers not under human control and beyond human comprehension, before which we feel shamefully small.

Awed and unnerved by Kateri's firmness, the warrior suddenly dropped his weapon: «Admiration, then a strange fear, overmastered the young brave... he could not have been more astonished at what he beheld if a spirit had appeared before him and ordered him out of the lodge.

Perhaps one of the reasons crowds stood before Jesus in awe at the authority of His words was that when He spoke, He calmed storms rather than provoked them.

Standing before that tree I was in awe because, though severely broken and damaged, it lived, and as it lives it flowers and bears fruit.»

As scientists, many of us have had profound experiences of awe and reverence before the universe.

They constitute a list before which the human soul can only lower its head in awe.

Even the tools by which Man is expected to achieve his heaven - on - earth — science and education — are no longer held in quite the awe they inspired before their joint endeavors brought humanity under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.

The fear of God is only a door to the love of God — it is the awe which one has before a loving father.

Okay, before I begin, I am amazed and in awe of where you live.

When I first visited Pike's, I was in complete awe of the vibrant produce and fresh fish just laid out before me; my creative side (that I didn't even know I had) was immediately piqued!

I never quite get round to doing all the challenges I mean to join before the monthly deadline and I watch others with awe!

We played two games there before Christmas, but we were so awed, the beaches and all, we blew the first one.»