Leif Enger Quotes About Miracles

Quotes about: Miracles

• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

  Leif Enger

  Pain, Real, Climbing Up

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

  Leif Enger

  People, Miracle, Bells

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

• Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.

  Leif Enger

  Easter, Spring, Long

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

• We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day.

  Leif Enger

  Children, Miracle, Looks

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.202, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

  Leif Enger

  Miracle, Earth, Persons

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press

• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

  Leif Enger

  Pain, Real, People

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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