Quotes about Wonder

When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this—and out of nothing—can still count the hairs of my head.

Let us not try to understand the pattern, only rejoice in its beauty.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

We must not take from our children—or ourselves—the truth that is in the world of the imagination.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

Would the Lord have dressed the flowers with a beauty that runs freely to meet our eyes if it were wrong to be moved by such beauty? Would He have endowed them with so sweet a fragrance that flows freely into our nostrils if it were wrong to be moved by the pleasantness of such fragrance?

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them.

We live by admiration, hope and love.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.