Miracle Quotes - Page 18

• When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Age, Old Age

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• Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Kindness, Writing, Charity

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• To be a miracle worker you do not have to get a doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a particular food, or be able to meditate for long hours. All you need to do is to begin to see beauty in your life and those around you.

  Alan Cohen

  Long, Degrees, Needs

  Alan Cohen (1987). “Healing of the Planet Earth: Personal Power and Planetary Transformation”, Dolphin Communications Co

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• The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Mind, Trying, Labels

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.34, Random House

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• It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?

  Alfred Polgar

  Fall, Rose, Example

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• It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Real, Believe, Never Quit

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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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• Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

  Mark Twain

  Nature

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.298, Xist Publishing

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• Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Heart, Eye

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• Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

  Ronnie Milsap

  One Day At A Time, Able, Facts

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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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• The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben”, p.102, Beacon Press

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• There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

  Rudolf Bing

  Night, Sigh Of Relief, Two

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• You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Knowing Who You Are, Conditions, Miracle Of Life

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.84, Anchor

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• Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Inspirational, Believe, Foolish

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• God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

  Peter Kreeft

  Earthquakes, Agents, Events

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  There can be miracles when you believe.

  Whitney Houston

  Philosophy, Believe

  Song: When You Believe

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  You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.

  George Strait

  Romantic, Sweet, Long

  Song: I Cross My Heart

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• I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

  Victoria Moran

  Spiritual, Believe, People

  "The Wonders of ‘Prep Week’" by Victoria Moran, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 28, 2011.

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• There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Be Good

  "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. Novermber 01, 2011.

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• Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

  Gary Larson

  Cartoon, Week, Here We Go Again

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Adaptation, Harmony, Inner Life

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• General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

  Jim Talent

  Team, Successful, Decision

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• There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  World, Problem, Cures

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• Chakras are mystical energy centers that exist within the human aura. Tremendous occult power resides in a person's chakras. Siddha masters draw upon that power during meditation, store it within themselves, and later use it to perform miracles.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Energy

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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