Quotes about Wonder

and suddenly there was Sweet Home rolling, rolling, rolling out before her eyes, and although there was not a leaf on that farm that did not make her want to scream, it rolled itself out before her in shameless beauty. It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too

The deceased was the tragic hero, the survivors the innocent victims; there was the omnipresence of the deity, strophe and antistrophe of the chorus of mourners led by the preacher. There was grief over the waste of life, the stunned wonder at the ways of God, and the restoration of order in nature at the graveyard.

Imagination is biblical reasoning in its Sunday best, lost in wonder at the creativity of the Creator. Being

Testimonies not only remind us of the miracles of God, they are meant to open our eyes to another realm of Kingdom provision.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?

At what age , he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful solution, but then ageing is not a graceful bussines.

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.