AWE see also:Fear of God; Worship

敬畏

We are encouraged to come freely to God but not flippantly.

Alistair Begg

我們受鼓勵要坦然無懼地來到上帝面前,但絕不可輕率隨便。

Awe is the primary religious emotion.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

敬畏是最基本的宗教情操。

We should give God the same place in our hearts that he holds in the universe.

Blaise Pascal

我們應當在心中給予上帝一個位置,正如同祂在宇宙中所佔有的地位一樣。

Where there is no awe the highest love is surely lacking.

Peter Green

缺乏敬畏之處,同樣缺乏無比的愛。

When we cannot, by searching, find the bottom, we must sit down at the brink and adore the depth.

Matthew Henry

當我們遍尋不著、無法探底時,我們必須坐在邊緣,以敬畏心情看著深不可測的奧秘。

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Immanuel Kant

兩樣東西,我越是持久而殷勤地思考,心中的敬畏與讚嘆就越是日新月異、與日俱增:一是我頭頂的燦爛星空,二是我內心的道德準則。

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

那無法再駐足於驚嘆與敬畏之中的人,與死無異;他的雙眼已經閉上。

Awe is the best part of humanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

敬畏是人類所能擁有的最高情感。

Awe is an intuition for the dignity that is within all things, a realization that things not only are what they are, but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

敬畏是一種直覺,意識到事物的深度超出了我們的理解範疇。