Quotes About Wonder

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace is born.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

She told me that love has a magic all its own.

Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.

Well I'm trying to think what I put in... I think I put in 'why?' to see if I'd confuse the computer.

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

I definitely want to go and do some more research. My dad used to make me sit outside on the steps all night long, looking for a UFO flying by and I had to do that for years.

I held out my dad's magic box and let it o, sure it would smash to the floor. Instead, the box disappeared. "Cool," I said. "Sure you I can get it back?" "No," Bast said. "Now come on!

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.

Earth is crammed with heaven And every bush aflame with God But only those who see take off their shoes. —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN