M.L. Wonder Quotes
Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.
He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.
The Lord of my life, who calls me to be brave and walk into the unknown, amazing future. I am always awed by the wonder of you.
There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue
Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.
All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.
And that was part of the tragedy: I had just started to know her. I was mourning the relationship that could have blossomed but didn’t have a chance to grow.
You’re treating your relationship with God like a fling. As it means nothing to Him and nothing to you. As if you can walk away from each other. But God doesn’t operate that way.
If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.
Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.
Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.
You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.
One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.
Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.
I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.
A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.
A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.
It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night.
Solomon smiles with us
What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?
But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.
As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
The hour on Sunday can be a time of wonder, a time of transformation, maybe even a time of awe.
And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.
If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here.
No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home
...I'd come home but nearly everybody does. It's the ones that don't go home that I feel sorry for, they're not happy.
There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?
Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.
You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You’re not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running.
I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers
I love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn't stuck in one place.
It has thick skin, and all the most important thinkers have become part of it.
Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.
Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.
The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.
It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law
Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.
I am somewhat exhausted
Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was.Only the is.