I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Wonder
Bethany Hicks
If you can fit all that God does in your box, then you don’t know Him that well. We must leave room for the wonder and mystery of God in how He chooses to speak to us.
Samuel Logan Brengle
Oh, there are unspeakable breadths, and lengths, and depths, and heights of the love of God for you to revel in and discover by the telescope and microscope of faith! Glory to God! You need not fear that the experience will wear out or grow tame. God is infinite, and your little mind and heart cannot exhaust the wonders of His wisdom and goodness and grace and glory in one short lifetime.
Richard Beck
Here and there in this secular age, we also experience updrafts of transcendence, a pull toward the heavens. We’re interrupted by wonder and awe. We’re surprised by joy. We experience a deep-seated ache and yearning, a feeling of restlessness, a longing for home. Even in an age of particle physics and brain scans, we still bump into the magic from time to time, still experience the enchantment of the world. We’re skeptical and scientific people, yes, but we’re also haunted by the suspicion that the universe is more than the sum of its subatomic parts.
Amanda Cook
May we never lose our wonder. Wide-eyed and mystified, may we be just like a child, staring at the beauty of our King.
Blaise Pascal
The last proceeding of reason is to recognise that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Hughes Oliphant Old
Wonder is a deep, profound experience. The typical secular education of our day makes us suspicious or callous to wonder. It seems so unscientific, so unsophisticated, and ultimately, so seemingly unnecessary. So they say. But to lose the sense of wonder is to lose one of the great beauties of life. Worship, on the other hand, exercises our sense of wonder. It helps us see things and hear things and feel things, that not everyone recognizes. Worship, in essence, is wonderful.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
Thanks are the highest form of thought and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.