Quotes about Enchantment

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

To young, inexperienced minds there seems to be a kind of fatal charm about the vague, the distant, and the mysterious.

The life also which here we live hath its own enchantment, through a certain proportion of its own, and a correspondence with all things beautiful here below.

Life is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius.

Fairy tales can come true It can happen to you If you're young at heart

The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony", Van Gogh's "Sunflowers", the sight of 10,000 butterflies in flight, or the scent of a million orchids in bloom. Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty... and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

I met a lady in the meadsFull beautiful, a faery's child;Her hair was long, her foot was light,And her eyes were wild.

Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle.

Not only will it never end, it will never diminish in its capacity to enthrall and fascinate and impart joy. It

We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.