Quotes About Astonishment

This marvelous anthology of books and letters called the Bible is all for the sake of astonishment! It's for divine transformation (theosis), not intellectual or "small-self" coziness.

I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a mark on me. Nico's mouth hung open. You just . . . with a sword . . . you just— I think the river thing worked, I said. Oh gee, he said sarcastically. You think?

She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks!

Whoa ,zombie dude

Nico laughed, which I didn't know he was capable of.

Whasthat! Um ... those are the toilets.

Dejardins was so stunned, he momentarily forgot how to speak English. Ce n'est pas possible. On ne pourrait pas-

Holy unanticipated occurrences!

Philip looked incredulously at the tiny bundle in Johnny's arms. He reached out a hand tentatively, and lifted a corner of the blanket. He saw a wrinkled pink face, an open toothless mouth and a little bald head—a miniature of an aging monk.

turning white

se quedó asombrado ante el desconocido en que se había convertido.

Walter marvelled anew at the indecent amount

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

Cricket could barely believe her eyes... but when that shotgun went off with a boom, so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket has never seen a snake fly!

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

Más asombroso es que miren con horror un esqueleto festivo hecho de almíbar de colores los que veneran como corazón de la historia el cadáver tumefacto de un hombre bondadoso suspendido en el leño del martirio.

Good Christ almighty!

A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.

A writer lives at best, in a state of astonishment.

Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still hear now, does not record it. Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

I didn't know you had a cat!' she exclaimed. I am always surprised how many people make this observation-though not all are as bold as the American in giving voice to their astonishment. Why should His Holiness not have a cat-if indeed, 'having a cat' is a correct understanding of the relationship?

More than amazing. It might actually be the skull of Moses. Wow. Just wow.

There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

She burst into snakes.