The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.
If you don't ask, you don't get it
A friend of yours has, I think, a huge collection of sock monkeys. I'd love to show those. When I go to people's homes and I see the little things they're obsessed with, I wonder why no one has ever exhibited them.
None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.
Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups such as the thighs, and then they wonder why it is that they never make gains in overall size and strength.
I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence.
Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. . . . All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.
In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder: to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans stir the aspects of life waiting within us.
All thinking begins with wondering
All understanding begins in wonder!
I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!
He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way.
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'.
What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button?
When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.
Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Most people can't handle boredom. That means they can't stay on one thing until they get good at it. And they wonder why they're unhappy.