Quotes About Wonder

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of life too small for us to see - but it's profoundly complicated, and immensely powerful. Ebola is like a beautiful and frightening predator. There is a wonder in the operations of nature that can't be denied, even when we're the losers.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

Fireflies love the dark too. There's beauty in those places. But we have to look in there to see it.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

You can remember which one is which by thinking that stalactites cling tight to the ceiling, while stalagmites might rise up from the floor. Over time, the stalagmites and stalactites will meet and form a column, just like they did with old Cupid here.

He wondered what the point was of possessing a wild heart if it was ultimately harnessed by a timid soul. Others were capable of the adventure he yearned for

Jake was hurting, emotionally and physically, and he was exhausted. He stared at her in wonder. "You're going to name him after me?" "I don't see any other father in this house." Ignoring the pain throbbing in his hands, he drew her close, holding onto her tightly. It was the most precious gift she could have given him.

What the devil is that?" Jack asked. Frannie eased around to see what Jack was staring at. Greystone's back bore a painting of an unusual creature with fire coming out of its mouth and wings spread wide.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out.

As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course.… We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.1

BY INVESTIGATING GOD'S MAJESTIC AND AWESOME CREATION, SCIENCE CAN ACTUALLY BE A MEANS OF WORSHIP. —FRANCIS COLLINS

Abandoning the tiny story of me and embracing the forever Story of Jesus will allow our little lives to be filled with the wonder of God as we live for the unending applause of His name. And joining our small stories to His will give us what we all want most in life, anyway: the assurance that our brief moments on earth will count for something in a Story that never ends.

A God who is beyond out ability to fully describe or imagine, yet someone we are privileged to know, love, and embrace.

I want my life to defy human explanation.

Lord, everywhere I look I see signs of how great You are. Thank You for Your amazing creation, including me!

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say 'I'm bored.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

Je?eli rzeczywi?cie nie ma ?adnej materii na tym ?wiecie, je?li ziemia, po której chodzimy, jest u?ud?, je?eli tak naprawd? nie ma tego, co widzimy, to có? nam pozostaje? Na czym mo?emy zawiesi? kapelusz? Magia to jedyna rzecz, która nie rz?dzi si? "racjonalnymi" prawami.

Zij bewoog niet, stond stil en staarde en vroeg zich af, of dit sterven was.

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