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• Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.

  Nando Parrado

  Love Is, Suffering, Weapons

  Nando Parrado (2009). “Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.

  Pablo Casals

  Spiritual, Art, Wings

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• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Stars, Fall

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• Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Spring, Heart

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• Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Weather, Air

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.16, tredition

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• We are all miracles. What we do with the miracle is our choice.

  Ron Fletcher

  Choices, Our Choices

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• In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Sides, Logic, Kind

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• How full and rich a world
  Theirs to inhabit is--
  Sweet scent of grass and bloom,
  Playmates' glad symphony,
  Cool touch of western wind,
  Sunshine's divine caress.
  How should they know or feel
  They are in darkness?
  But, oh, the miracle!
  If a Redeemer came,
  Laid finger on their eyes--
  One touch and what a world,
  New-born in loveliness!

  Israel Zangwill

  Sweet, Children, Eye

  Israel Zangwill (1903). “Blind Children”

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• Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

  Jean Cocteau

  Baths, Said

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• Passion is like genius: a miracle.

  Romain Rolland

  Passion, Genius

  Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”

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• There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

  Robert Breault

  God, Normal, Divine

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• The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

  Vernon Howard

  Healing, Health, Yield

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• If you have Jesus in your heart, you also have miracles of healing within your hands.

  Marilyn Hickey

  Jesus, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Marilyn Hickey from Nov 17, 2014

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• The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Believe, Order

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hell, Moments

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

  George Santayana

  Free Gifts, Moments, Existence

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.340, Indiana University Press

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• Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

  Joseph Campbell

  Angel, Technology, Littles

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, Anchor

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Simple, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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• The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

  Ivan Illich

  Medicine, Population, Levels

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• What hymns are sung.
  What praises said.
  For homemade miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Hymns, Bread, Praise

  Louis Untermeyer (1932). “Food and Drink”

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• If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

  Drew Carey

  Frogs, Neat, Wells

  "The Drew Carey Show". www.imdb.com. 1995 - 2004.

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• Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

  Christopher Fry

  Real, Mysterious Things, Hands

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• It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

  Murray Kempton

  Winning, America, Long

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.246, New York Review of Books

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