“Amid countless everyday miracles, I come in contact with something greater than myself and realize I am a part of it... I move in wonder through inspiration, reverence, gratitude, interconnectedness, transcendence, and grace.” InspirationMovingRealizingWonderGreaterGraceGratitudeMiracleEverydayContactReverenceTranscendenceInterconnectedness Author:John Paul Caponigro
“There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.” NaturalReligiousWonderReverenceSense Of WonderSixth Sense Author:D. H. Lawrence
“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.” FacesGrowsWonderStepsForeverConditionsTheoryReverenceMasteryPerpetualCultivatingNatural Science Author:Richard Powers
“By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.” YoungLeftWonderTeachCuttingCreationGratitudeEnvironmentalAweReverenceTriviaBereftAwe And Wonder Author:Matthew Fox
“I confess, right at the start, to the doubts - and sometimes outright dreads - that go with me as I climb the stairs to my study in the morning, coffee mug in hand: I have to admit to the habitual apprehension mixed with a sort of reverence, as I light the incense . . . and wonder: what is going to happen today? Will anything happen? Will the angel come today?” SometimesHandsLightHappensTodayWonderMorningStudyDoubtAngelCoffeeThings HappenClimbsReverenceDreadStairsHabitualApprehensionIncenseMugMorning CoffeeCoffee Mug Author:Gail Godwin
“One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.” WorldUseTodaySpiritPrayerForgetWonderMysteryAwarenessBrokenEssentialsApproachMajorsToolsTragedyCrisisOur TimeOur WorldWord Of GodReverenceSensitivitySymptomsVesselWorld TodayPrerequisites Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel