The Call to Wonder Quotes

“Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“If you should ever be blessed to be far enough from the cacophony of civilization when a heavy snow falls, you can even hear the very music of the iced dew's delicate descent. It is the repainting of a landscape in a thousand hues of white. It is the dance of the wind.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“The call to delight in our heavenly Father is not one that can be rightly obeyed with bootstrap effort. One cannot grimly determine to rejoice in the grace of God. The only way to rejoice the way David did is to be overcome with emotion. David's joyous dance was true to who he was and true to how he felt about God. It was David becoming like a child, so much so that he insisted on giving in to his willingness, even his eagerness, to become undignified.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child

“Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.”
― R.C. Sproul Jr., The Call to Wonder: Loving God like a Child