Amazement Quotes - Page 5

• You are so amazed by grace, you're not picking a fight with anyone, you're just crying tears of amazement that should lead to a heart for lost people, that God does indeed save, when he doesn't have to save anybody.

  Joshua Harris

  Heart, Fighting, People

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• If you take a single step toward positive change, that divine energy will take a hundred steps toward you. New worlds and unbelievable possibilities will open up for you. The synchronicities that will begin appearing in your life will become a source of delight and amazement.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Delight, World, Steps

  Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D. (2009). “Inner Peace for Busy People (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.346, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We don't have any power of creation - we have only the power of assembly. So you just stand there and watch things connect to each other, in some amazement actually. You start by doing something right, and you watch it get more right than you thought possible.

  Bill Mollison

  Watches, Creation, Assembly

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Stars, Rain

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

  Adrienne Rich

  Daughter, Mother, Confusion

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Light, White, Heaven

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• Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cages, Way, Sometimes

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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• The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Reading, Book, Character

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

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Faith, Religious, Attitude

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  William James

  Basketball, Dream, Perseverance

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• I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

  Petria Thomas

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.

  Gary Snyder

  Discovery, Years, Brain

  Gary Snyder (1995). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds : New and Selected Prose”, Counterpoint LLC

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• I imagine our first glimpse of Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that endlessly wonderful place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Inspirational, Life, Sight

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.17, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.

  Martin Gardner

  Teaching, Math, Depth

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• When we worship you in the form of bread... we always see you as an adult. But every year at Christmas, you reveal yourself to us as a child born in a crib. We stand in silent amazement...In silent adoration we stand before the mystery, like Mary when the shepherd came and told her what they had seen and heard: 'She kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.'

  Chiara Lubich

  Children, Heart, Years

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• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, Fundamentals

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• Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of stress.

  Harry Johnson

  Stress, Machines, Body

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• The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability.

  Kristin Hunter

  Children, Littles, Most Amazing

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• Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Acceptance, Perfection, Trying

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• Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that of Einstein gradually fading into ineptitude under the searchlight; and I have no doubt that there will arise a new generation who will look with a wonder and amazement, deeper than now accompany Einstein, at our galaxy of thinkers, men of science, popular critics, authoritative professors and witty dramatists, who have been satisfied to waive their common sense in view of Einstein's absurdities.

  Arthur Lynch

  Witty, Eye, Science

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• Aphrodite,” [Annabeth] said. “Venus?” Hazel asked in amazement. “Mom,” Piper said with no enthusiasm. “Girls!” The goddess spread her arms like she wanted a group hug. The three demigods did not oblige. Hazel backed into a palmetto tree.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Mom, Tree

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• I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful. As stunning as I found the hawk-chased conures, this bird astounded me even more. That the Carolina Parakeet was extinct simply added to my amazement.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Yellow, Orange, Bird

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

  Alice Fulton

  Alive, Minors

  Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

  John Calvin

  Men, Scripture, Overwhelmed

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Lying, Book, Feet

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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