Quotes about Surprise

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we're expecting them and oftentimes when we're not even paying attention.

God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.

Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.

Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word. I touched off one of my electric connections, and all that murky world of people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare! It was immense—that effect! Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons. The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, Martin, Martin, come quickly! I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: Darling, it's empty!

The man was dressed only in his Burberry overcoat, his trousers, and an unlaced pair of canvas shoes. As he fell over, his Burberry, which had been simply thrown round his shoulders, slipped off, exposing his trunk.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.