Quotes about Enchantment

She had fallen under water, under a spell, in love with love.

Standing at her window, Anne was enchanted to see the buds that would soon be opening into white stars. Perhaps the magnolia spoke to her, and if it did, it told her that no man with ill intentions would travel with a large, flowering tree.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

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

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.

As G. K. Chesterton once wrote, Your religion is not the church you belong to, but the cosmos you live inside of. Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm seeing "contemplation.

Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm seeing "contemplation.

For postmodern people, the universe is not inherently enchanted, as it was for the ancients. We have to do all the "enchanting" ourselves. This leaves us alone, confused, and doubtful. There is no meaning already in place for our discovery and enjoyment.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.