“A godly life is lived out of an astonished heart—a heart that is astonished at grace.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.” — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“When you see something excellent or something very beautiful, a silent astonishment will be the greatest word one can ever say to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Felt astonishment at the idea of that much leisure that much spare cash flying away into bottles and vials.” — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
“Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I can’t believe it. You’re finally mine,” he said, astonishment in his voice.“I was always yours.” — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy,… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that… — John Gould Copy Share Image
Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The numbers could never be as favorable as they were right now, when his naiveté would be subtracted from my expertise to… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
A lot of what I am looking for is a moment of astonishment, he says. Those moments of pure consciousness when you… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
