Quotes about Surprise

What they had most feared had happened, and yet what lay ahead was a wonderful plan they could not have imagined on their own. God had things well under control.

You think you know someone your whole life, and he turns out to be a German-gypsy interdimensional dark elf spy who can cloud men's minds. Go figure.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.

I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

How did it all come about—this miracle of love? She didn't know. It had come upon her unawares... softly.

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is that you, or who you think you are, have nothing to do with its original creation or its demise. It's sort of disempowering and utterly empowering at the same time, isn't it? All you can do is nurture it.

great love is always a discovery, a revelation, a wonderful surprise, a falling into "something" much bigger and deeper that is literally beyond us and larger than us.

God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.

For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.