Quotes about Wonder

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.

on. And then we catch a glimpse—or was

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

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes.

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

Emotion is not simply an overplus of feeling; it is life lived at white-heat, a state of wonder. To lose wonder is to lose the true element of religion.

and I feel as if it will be overwhelming to one day see what God has wrought, and one will only be sorry not to have trusted more utterly. So just go on praying and believing and we will surely find that God is doing His wondrous things all the time.

wonder how God will answer this prayer.' 'I wonder how God will answer the prayer the Holy Ghost is praying in me.' 'I wonder what glory God will bring to Himself out of the strange perplexities I am in.' 'I wonder what new turn His providence will take in manifesting Himself in my ways.

God grant we may have the wonder of the child-heart which the Holy Ghost gives, and that He may keep our minds young and vigorous and un-stagnant, never asleep, but always awake with child-eyed wonder at the next wonderful thing God will do.

As we grow in the Christian life, it becomes simpler to us, because we are less inclined to say, "I wonder why God allowed this or that?" And we begin to see that the compelling purpose of God lies behind everything in life, and that God is divinely shaping us into oneness with that purpose.