Quotes About Amazement

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One scenario begins by imagining that Jesus heals somebody in a village. What is the likely response, beyond amazement and gratitude? He (and those with him) would be invited to a meal. It is the classic ancient way of expressing gratitude and hospitality.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain...Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Taking a moment and a deep breath. Im truly thankful for everything life has shown me so far in my 20 years. I am so blessed. Just wow.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

Wonder takes our breath away, and makes room for new breath. That's why they call it breathtaking.

But it is fantasy to think that successful writers do not have these bored, defeated hours, these hours of deep insecurity when one feels as small and jumpy as a water bug. They do. But they also often feel a great sense of amazement that they get to write, and they know that this is what they want to do for the rest of their lives.

When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

Help, Thanks, Wow

Yes, I was surprised about her myself. I had always considered her to be proper enough, if somewhat light-headed. It shows how one can be deceived." "Because she was killed?" Caroline said with a lift of amazement in her voice. "Precisely.

She had already turned. She watched him in amazement as he made his way slowly across the lawn and into the house. Pandora stepped back for him, and we all watched in respectful silence as he sat down near the piano, his back to the front right leg of it, and his knees brought up and his head resting wearily on his folded arms. He closed his eyes. Sybelle, I asked, would you play it for him? The Appassionata, again, if you would. And of course, she did.

I was amazed by his boldness, polite as it was. But then he was so much older than me, so used to a graceful authority, and I was painfully young. Again, in waves I felt the old love for him, the old need of him, and again it was fusing perfectly and stupidly, with my thirst.

Lord save us, first you have a heart, now you have a god? Will wonders never cease?

You know how you just have to touch your child, sometimes? How you drink him in with your eyes and you could stare at him for hours and you marvel at how dear and impossibly perfect he is?

Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.

the indestructibility of the army pack mule. Falling from a height of thirty feet, one of these creatures—watched in amazement by a regiment of troopers whose colonel recorded the incident in his memoirs—"turned a somersault, struck an abutment, disappeared under water, came up, and swam ashore without disturbing his pack.