Quotes about Surprise

But as he'd learned through the years, sometimes the best things were found when you weren't looking for them.

In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

Adorable ambuscades of providence!

It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf

Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

She never knew where he was, in what city or on what continent, the day after she had seen him. He always came to her unexpectedly—and she liked it, because it made him a continuous presence in her life, like the ray of a hidden light that could hit her at any moment.

Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.

One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there's always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

Ziklag: for me this became the premier biblical site for realizing that when we get serious about the Christian life, we eventually end up in a place and among people decidedly uncongenial to what we expected. At least uncongenial to what I expected. That place and people is often called a church. It is hard to get over the disappointment that God, having made an exception in my case, didn't seem to call nice, accomplished, courteous, alert people to worship.