Quotes About Wonder

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.

God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.

One day I saw a flower and began to contemplate its fragrance and beauty. As I thought more deeply, I recognized the creator of such wonders- not with my mortal eyes but with my spiritual eyes. This filled my heart with joy, but my joy was still greater when I recognized that same creator at work within my own soul. How wonderful is God, separate from creation yet ever filling it with his glorious presence.

Ratsuni jäljet on lumi peittänyt. Ne, joiden edelle ratsastin, kummeksivat: mitä tietä hän meni?

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

The reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvellous.

A child fashioned by a wonder-filled life will cultivate inner strength, a confidence in his own ability to think, evaluate, and know. But those who influence children must fight to protect time for the imagination to have space to work, to have time to engage.

God is active and present in every moment of our lives, but too often we are so caught up in how we ought to be rather than allowing ourselves to be swept up into the whirlwind of the Spirit. God desires that we learn to play again, to experience Him like little children do, open in wonder to the vastness and endless wonder of Him.

You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.

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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

Bir defas?nda gökyüzünü bir çocuÄŸun üzerine düÅŸürmüÅŸtüm.

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. —RALPH SOCKMAN

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.