Wonder Reborn Quotes

“beauty has ample room to embrace not only what is attractive but also things that are disturbing and difficult for us to confront. Beauty has this capacity because it is “inseparable from truth and goodness. Indeed, beauty is the persuasive power of God’s truth and goodness. So beauty is in the end about honesty, about seeing what is actually there and being true to one’s own response to it”
― Thomas Troeger, Wonder Reborn: Creating Sermons on Hymns, Music, and Poetry

“Godly wonder is a state of prayerful astonishment awakened by the Spirit of God through the experience of beauty. Preachers can help to mend our bitterly fragmented world by reclaiming the place of beauty in preaching and worship in order to renew our sense of godly wonder.”
― Thomas Troeger, Wonder Reborn: Creating Sermons on Hymns, Music, and Poetry