Quotes about Wonder

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad; it was- beautiful. The deep blue sky was flicked with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. On the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, rose, brighter, flashing more like jewels than they do even in Paris. The sea was a very deep ultramarine.

Admire as much as you can; most people do not admire enough.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.

All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as "the sum of the world's suffering," an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wonder why God permits it.