Quotes About Wonder

That's the one with the magic, he would say.

I got some coffee and stood looking at the sky.

No moon or stars, real or imagined.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know

How wonderful it would be to meet an angel, I mused, but then I immediately realised that I already had. Not an archangel like Saint Michael, but my human engel from Detroit, wearing an overcoat and no hat, with lank brown hair and eyes the coler of water.

It pleased me to imagine a presence above us, in continual motion, like liquid stars.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

Is that a ukulele?" I ask. We stop and listen closely. "Actually," says Elena, "it's a bunch of ukuleles.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics.

One gapes at the wonder of those headphones. A man is about to toss two canisters of tear gas into a crowd of four hundred people and then open fire on them with a shotgun, semi-­automatic rifle, and a handgun, and yet his nerves are so delicately strung that he cannot bear to listen to the clamor and the screams those actions will inevitably provoke.

We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well…How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have for envying the gods

That would be an actual miracle," said Lizzie. "I never was sure what I thought about those.

Magic let you jump over the "why" and make use of what was hidden, all from the comfort of your kitchen sink.

To believe in and reach for the beyond was Lizzie's thing, and it suited her and was beautiful for her, an opinion of Autumn's which she didn't think Lizzie had ever quite believed she held. To ask the beyond some serious questions was Autumn's thing.

God created an awesome world. God intentionally loaded the world with amazing things to leave you astounded. The carefully air-conditioned termite mound in Africa, the tart crunchiness of an apple, the explosion of thunder, the beauty of an orchid, the interdependent systems of the human body, the inexhaustible pounding of the ocean waves, and thousands of other created sights, sounds, touches, and tastes—God designed all to be awesome. And he intended you to be daily amazed.

Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.

It's wrong not to be in awe of what God created, but it's even more deeply wrong when you can look at created glory without remembering God.

On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. PSALM 145:5

I was wired for awe of God. No other awe satisfies the soul.

gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. CHESTERTON

Theological instruction that does not arouse awe is broken.

Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. OSWALD CHAMBERS