Quotes about Wonder

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle in Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology has its origin in the wonder of all wonders that God became man. Alongside the brilliance of holy night there burns the fire of the unfathomable mystery of Christian theology."

But after all, it is a very pretty pass indeed. And how very glad we are that one man led us to that pretty pass, to that golden doorway, and then guided us through the mountains to a world we hadn't known could exist.

Every once in a great while, the hand of God is easy to see, and for a brief moment, fairy tales and history are the same thing. This story is about one of those times.

When we come to see the superlatively extreme precariousness of our existence, and begin to understand how by any accounting, we ought not to exist, what are we to think or feel? Our existence seems to be not merely a virtually impossible miracle but the most outrageous miracle conceivable, one that makes previously amazing miracles seem like almost nothing.

Fundamentally we feel that we really belong to death already, and that every new day is a miracle.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Glorious wrappings sheath the gift of one day more. Breathless I unwrap the package. Never lived this day before.

words like 'mystery' and 'soul' and 'the source of life' came in over and over again, as they sat on the bed talking, with nothing to do and nothing to believe and nowhere better to go.

In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.