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Quotes About Wonder

Why is there something, rather than nothing?" is a question that anyone can ask.
~ Unknown
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.
~ Unknown
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
~ J. B. Priestley
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
~ J. B. Priestley
Chile, ain't life somethin?! Lord, oh, lord.
~ J. California Cooper
As he watched his flocks by Mount Horeb, he saw a bush that was blazing without being consumed. He said, "Let me check out this amazing sight and find out why the bush isn't burning up." And then, the telling sentence: "When the LORD saw that he was coming to look, God called to him out of the bush" (Ex 3:3-4). I think it
~ Unknown
Without the miracles we should have a teacher; with the miracles we have a Savior.
~ J. Gresham Machen
The New Testament without the miracles would be far easier to believe. But the trouble is, it would not be worth believing
~ J. Gresham Machen
The magic that works, to me, is the magic that feels completely grounded and real and tangible.
~ J. J. Abrams
When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.
~ J. J. Abrams
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
~ J. J. Abrams
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced.
~ Unknown
Music . . . . A magic beyond all we do here!
~ J. K. Rowling
Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
~ J. K. Rowling
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
~ J. K. Rowling
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here
~ J. K. Rowling
Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
~ J. M. Barrie
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.
~ J. Maarten Troost
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
What would the world be like if we were more curious about light and less afraid to admit our own luminosity? How would our sense of beauty expand if we actively inspired each other to bring forward the light we each carry?
~ J. Ruth Gendler
A third wonder of life should not surprise. It is nature
~ Dacher Keltner
Music offered up a fourth wonder of life, transporting people to new dimensions of symbolic meaning in experiences at concerts, listening quietly to a piece of music, chanting in a religious ceremony, or simply singing with others.
~ Dacher Keltner