Quotes about Wonder

The design of redemption is to exhibit the grace of God in such a manner as to fill all hearts with wonder and all lips with praise.

For I dipp'd into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dewFrom the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue.

I found Him in the shining of the stars,I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways with men I find Him not.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

Some people in this world have stopped looking for beauty, then wonder why their lives are so ugly. Don't be like them. The ability to appreciate beauty is of God. Especially in one another. Look for beauty in everyone you meet, and you'll find it. Everyone carries divinity within them. And everyone we meet has something to impart.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

People who've had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don't know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind.

If the embryo could reason in the womb, it would wonder why it grew hands and feet, and it would surely conclude that there must be another world to play and run and work.

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17

Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.

Science does an excellent job of telling me why I don't have a tail, but it can't explain why I find that interesting.

You are always new to me.