Quotes About Wonder

Mystery is not an argument for the existence of God; mystery is an experience of the existence of God.

You can explain coincidence to me in mathematics all you like, but it won't kill the magic or the mystery.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".

And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”

“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?

Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?

If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

These curses will be a sign and a wonder upon you and your descendants forever.

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ëHas not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?í But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiahís heart.

the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.