Quotes about Wonder

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

The truth is that the sole reason we don't see the world all around us as magic is that we are jaded, too cool for the school of wonder.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.

All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as "the sum of the world's suffering," an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wonder why God permits it.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Consider earth, our home. Let your eyes savor the brilliant hues and delicate shadings of a summer sunset. Tunnel your toes into wet sand, stand still, and feel the dependable foam and spray of an ocean tide. Visit a butterfly garden and study the abstract designs: 10,000 variations, more imaginative than those of any abstract painter, all compressed into tiny swatches of flying fabric. Belief in a loving Creator is easy among these good things.