Quotes about Surprise

In sum, if Jesus isn't surprising you, you've probably stopped growing spiritually.

Truth is both reason and revelation—and both can surprise us.

but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Mary looked at the picture for some time without saying anything. Indeed, she didn't know what to say; she was taken aback, she was at a loss. She had expected a cubist masterpiece, and here was a picture of a man and a horse, not only recognisable as such, but even aggressively in drawing.

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Life is...the moments that take your breath away.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.