Quotes About Wonder

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.

Our sense of wonder makes us question the way we've been doing things and encourages us to ask, Is there a better way?

childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

One of these days lightning is going to fill the sky from the rising of the sun to its setting, and there is going to appear in the clouds one like a son of man with his mighty angels in flaming fire. And we will see him clearly. And whether from terror or sheer excitement, we will tremble and we will wonder how, how we ever lived so long with such a domesticated, harmless Christ.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS

It was a very costly love. A very powerful love. A very rugged, painful love. The meaning of Christmas is the celebration of this love. "God so loved . . ." And wonder of wonders, God gives this costly love to an undeserving world of sinners, like us.

If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire His gifts, but even more, His glory.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

Dear God: Why do you let people grow old? Signed: Conroy Early the next morning, I retrieved his answer. Conroy: Although I've created all of you, I often find the way you think quite puzzling. For me, the most beautiful moment on earth is old people. They are my human sunsets. Signed: God

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

We walk into the mystery of God; we do not define that mystery.

Does an iris," he asked, tracing such a flower on the wall, "seek to repay the sun which gave it life? No, the mere beauty of the iris is tenfold thanks enough, for each day the sun can see the wonder it created.

Chaos, Chaos, infinite wonder! Wheeling and reeling on wavering wings...

How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love?

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

The question is what is the question?

As wee now wonder at the blindnesse of our Ancestors, who were not able to discerne such things as seeme plaine and obvious unto us. So will our posterity admire our ignorance in as perspicuous matters.

A rose-red city half as old as time.

There is a kind of crystallization in the circumstances of one's life. A peculiar turn of mind draws to itself events fitted to its particular nucleus, and it is frequently a subject of wonder why one man meets with more remarkable things than another, when it is owing merely to a difference of natural character.

No, sir," Stoner said, and the decisiveness of his voice surprised him. He thought with some wonder of the decision he had suddenly made.

it led his eyes outward and upward into the sky, where he looked as if toward a possibility for which he had no name.