Tremendum Et Fascinans Quotes & Sayings

Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination. — Abundance Of Katherines John Green

Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count
/ Festival of the Souls. — Matsuo Basho

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship. — Brennan Manning

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity. — Dorothy Height

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. — Emile M. Cioran

The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world ... — Wallace Stevens

Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?
In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.
Love. Love was what drove him. — David Bowles

We all got our reasons ... good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand. — Joe Abercrombie

So, the thing is, my dad, the immigrant, is really, really disappointed that I have an allergy. A peanut allergy. Because immigrants do not believe in allergies. I swear to God, ask any brown person with an accent that you see and they'll tell you that allergies are some New World shit. — Jade Chang

Low maintance is what's forgettable. You might want to right that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It's golden. — Gena Showalter

But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. — Jon Ronson

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor. — Muhammad Yunus

I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel. — Ken Follett