Quotes about Amazement

Why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? Acts 3:12

It is then I face a momentous decision. Shivering in the rags of my seventy-four years, I have two choices. I can escape below into skepticism and intellectualism, hanging on for dear life. Or, with radical amazement, I can stay on deck and boldly stand in surrendered faith to the truth of my belovedness, caught up in the reckless raging fury that they call the love of God. And learn to pray.

Best, therefore, withhold any amazement at the strangely gallied whales before us, for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

the power of God came mightily upon us. Many cried out in complete joy. Others were knocked to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from that awe and amazement at God's presence, we broke out in praise.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.