#wonders

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#cannot #communicate #communicated #find #fortified

There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#fail #fall #flat #just #lot

I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #god #miracles #nature #wonders

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#fool #man #wise #wise man #wonders

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#books #coming #disappointing #find #grass

We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

#beloved #founded #heroes #inspired #love

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. ↗

— Tony Snow

#day #each #error #grasp #help

Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#wonders #age

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that 'God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish'? Surely that precious word, 'Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely' and that solemn promise, 'Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,' are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie? ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#salvation #signs #wonders #life

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#being #condition #creatures #himself #his