Word: awed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wonderful beauty of the Gothic cathedrals, their noble architecture, their windows of splendid colored glass, their numberless memorials to men and women of all degrees for public services and private virtues, to children, to rich harvests, to plagues, to victories; and I have again been filled with awe and with admiration of their builders...
...word "fear" is in this case rather ambiguous. It is not a degrading terror, but rather an uplifting awe. It should instill in us admiration, not envy or hatred; and our constant effort should be imitation of the Revered Being. In the low forms of religion, the fear is abject, hopeless; and it is only with the help of Christian love that we can avoid this and realize that we are in a measure akin to God, however many feelings we may have...