Quotes About Wonder

Despite many things we can't explain, a study of our world convinces us that the universe, our planet, and life itself, really could not "just happen." In the beginning, there was God!

He finished his story with a little facial shrug, part Yankee modesty, part genuine perplexity. As in, how did that happen?

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Figuring out the solutions to puzzling mysteries seems to come so fast and so naturally for him, we just shake our heads in wonder and chalk it up as miraculous. We don't stop to consider the mental and emotional resources he has to marshal to pull that "miracle" off.

If God so precisely and carefully and lovingly and amazingly constructed a mind-boggling habitat for His creatures, then it would be natural for Him to want them to explore it, to measure it, to investigate it, to appreciate it, to be inspired by it--and ultimately, and most importantly, to find Him through it.

Human beings can build airplanes, but they can't build a human being like you.

Physicist Paul Davies 1 Would

So do whatever it takes to keep the wonder of God's grace fresh in your heart.

He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. "We're sure small, wouldn't you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.

And who doesn't long for the door in the air.

Don't fear occasional ghosts. Every day my mind suggests two or three impossible things.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Do not be a magician - be magic!

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

Still he was uncertain. He wondered if everything had gone as it should. Was that all there was to it? Perhaps it had been celebrated out of proportion because there was nothing else to live for.

over me, I experienced the same thrill and amazement as when I had my first glimpse of the bright lights of Konakry. I shivered with the intensity of my desire to learn to do this wondrous thing myself.6

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

For once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

O Time, consumer of all things! O envious age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return