Quotes about Wonder

It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

At whose sight all the stars hide their diminish'd heads.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. C. S. LEWIS

It was a very costly love. A very powerful love. A very rugged, painful love. The meaning of Christmas is the celebration of this love. "God so loved . . ." And wonder of wonders, God gives this costly love to an undeserving world of sinners, like us.

If the beams are beautiful, the sun is even more beautiful. God's aim is not that we merely admire His gifts, but even more, His glory.

The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.