Quotes about Wonder
How strange that a boy could make a kite of his pants, fly them around the world, and somehow arrive back at the house where everything began.
— Barbara Kingsolver
But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.
— Barbara Kingsolver
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
— Samuel Rutherford
A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
— Leo Buscaglia
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.
— Lee Ann Womack
If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
— Teresa of Avila
It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
— Evelyn Underhill
I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
— Jack Kerouac
When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, In wonder, love and praise.
— Joseph Addison
Impersonal things that dominate our time and imagination offer extravagant promises of control and knowledge. But they also squeeze all sense of mystery and wonder and reverence out of our lives.
— Eugene Peterson
Gabriel Marcel wrote that life is not so much a problem to be solved as a mystery to be explored.
— Eugene Peterson