Quotes about Marvels

Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD—Your faithfulness as well—in the assembly of the holy ones.

How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.

Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom

But I must be content with only one more and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one, by which you will not fail to see, that not only is the most marvellous event in this book corroborated by plain facts of the present day, but that these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages; so that for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon - Verily there is nothing new under the sun.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

Chet Raymo is professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. He is a convinced naturalist with a strong mystical bent. Few writers in our time are able to open up vistas of grandeur in the world of objects and entities as he does. In his book Skeptics and True Believers:The Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion, he illustrates in his brilliant and inimitable style the marvels that are all around us in this universe.

But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.