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Quotes About Wonders

I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers. Aly propped her chin on her hand. So does manure, she observed.
~ Tamora Pierce
She realized now, fully, how strong the magic of Kernik, Prince of Conjurors, must be. Strong and awesome, to sweep away the memory of a whole night of wonders as a broom sweeps away the trace of birds' feet in the snow. Truly he was a person to be respected and feared, and it would be safe and intelligent to forget entirely his magnificent coming and that sly going that she had not been meant to see. But of course she could not, and acknowledged simultaneously why she could not.
~ Tanith Lee
The skies will be magnificent. Pollutants have made Jersey sunsets one of the wonders of the world. Point it out. Touch her shoulder and say, That's nice, right?
~ Junot Diaz
We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the beginning He discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so He would now discover land to us, that we might not perish.
~ Francis Bacon
Jesus provided reasons to believe through many different means, the most dramatic of which were miracles done in public as authentication
~ Francis J. Beckwith
THE PEERLESS PRODIGIES OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND GREAT PRESENTATION OF MARVELOUS LIVING HUMAN CURIOSITIES
~ Frederick Drimmer
How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?
~ Brandon Sanderson
How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?
~ Brandon Sanderson
How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?
~ Brandon Sanderson
What would it be like if every nation—from the isles in the South to the Terris hills in the North—were united under a single government? What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together? It is too much, I suppose, to even hope for. A single, unified empire of man? It could never happen.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.
~ Herman Melville
what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!
~ Herman Melville
It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.
~ Stephen Levine
façades of the unknown city loomed up before him, harboring unimaginable wonders—his whole life had been leading up to this.
~ Michel Faber
We poison ourselves with judgment and fear, and then we spread the toxin to living beings all around us. To heal ourselves requires self-love, the white magic that works wonders on the dream of humanity.
~ Miguel Ruiz
When God sprinkled stars in the heavens, he opened our eyes to the wonders of the universe.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.".??.????.??????.
~ Bram Stoker
Sometimes powerful magic is accomplished by simple means.
~ Brandon Mull
The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.
~ Brian Greene
Many find it fatuous and downright repugnant to claim that the wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.
~ Brian Greene
Once the wonders of space are opened up to a Guild Navigator's mind, what other decorations are necessary? How can any ornamentation rival the wonders a Navigator sees on a single journey through foldspace? The universe, brother! The whole universe." C'tair nodded, conceding the point. "All right
~ Brian Herbert
There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.
~ Carl Sagan
Then science came along and taught us that we are not the measure of all things, that there are wonders unimagined, that the Universe is not obliged to conform to what we consider comfortable or plausible. We have learned something about the idiosyncratic nature of our common sense. Science has carried human self-consciousness to a higher level. This is surely a rite of passage, a step towards maturity.
~ Carl Sagan
It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don't normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and curve in on themselves, and that since reality is fractal most of it is tucked inside itself. This means either that the universe is more full of wonders than we can hope to understand or, more probably, that scientists make things up as they go along.
~ Terry Pratchett