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• We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

  Virginia Satir

  Essence, Needs

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• When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Independent Women, Best Effort

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• I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Mistake, Kind

  Mother Teresa (1996). “In My Own Words”

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• But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Glory

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• Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.

  Judah Leon Magnes

  Men, Israel, Flames

  "Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest". Book by Allen Klein, p. 93, 2013.

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• I'm not a dreamer... but I believe in miracles. I have to

  Terry Fox

  Believe, Inspiration, Dreamer

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• This is a beautiful time of year with spring beginning to burst forth in many parts of the world, bringing all of its colors, scents, and cheerful sounds. The miracle of the changing seasons, with the reawakening and rebirth in nature, inspires feelings of love and reverence within us for God's marvelous, creative handiwork.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Beautiful, Nature, Spring

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• Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

  Peter Drucker

  Sports, Damn, Unpredictable

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• Prayer is the instrument of miracles.

  Marion G. Romney

  Prayer, Instruments

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• Men and women in all parts of the world have a desperate need to take time from their demanding routines of everyday life and to quietly observe God's miracles taking place all around them. Think of what would happen if all of us took time to look carefully at the wonders of nature that surround us and devoted ourselves to learning more about this world that God created for us!

  M. Russell Ballard

  Nature, Men, Thinking

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• Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Girl, Action, Fairy Tale

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• Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

  Stephen Hawking

  Believe, Believe In Miracles, Compatible

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• The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Giving, Needed

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• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  Bruce Feiler

  Adventure, White, Russia

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• Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

  Christian de Duve

  Matter, Steps, Life Is

  Christian De Duve (1995). “Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperative”, Basic Books

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• Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

  Willa Cather

  Perception, Turns, Surround

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• Left to Tell reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of God; that with faith, miracles will always appear; and that forgiveness is the key to freedom. A must-read for all of us in these troubled times.

  Colette Baron-Reid

  Daughter, Son, Keys

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• The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Hero, Men, Stories

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.7, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Strange, Music Is, Strange Things

  Letters on the French Stage, 1837.

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

  Storm Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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• When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

  LouAnne Johnson

  Teacher, Class, Students

  LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.8, Macmillan

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• The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

  John Ortberg

  Lying, Son, Sunday

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• To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.

  Michelle Cruz

  Believe, Want, Accepting

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• We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Thinking, Order

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.105, Penguin

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