Miracle Quotes - Page 23

• Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.

  Amy Neftzger

  People, Needs

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.306, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Law, Body, Humans

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When Bad Things Happen to Good People: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• What miracle of weird transforming Is this wild work of frost and light, This glimpse of glory infinite?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Winter, Light, Glimpse

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.370

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• Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream... Well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of America - those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street; the faithfuls who support our churches, synagogues, schools, and communities; the brave men and women everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America? That's where miracles are made, not in Washington, D.C.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Jobs, Nice

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the National Federation of Independent Business, www.reaganlibrary.gov. June 22, 1983.

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• I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Believe, Audience

  AARP Magazine, July-August 2008.

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• The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of molecular biology these days.

  Francis Collins

  Flower, Mind, Molecular Biology

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.

  Paul Davies

  Looks, Physicist, Living Things

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Resistance, Kind, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, America, Flying

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.58

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• The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, Men, Dwarves

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.196, Penguin

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• If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Madrid, Illusion, Pigment

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• Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Religious, Art, Attitude

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• For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

  Athol Fugard

  Men, Rocks, Soul

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• We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

  Tom Chatfield

  Age, Texture, Difficult

  Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us

  Jim Rohn

  Pieces, Process, Has Beens

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• [The masses] ... must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.

  Peter Drucker

  Lying, Despair, Depth

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.54, Routledge

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• No luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.

  Margaret Atwood

  Names, Dumb, Luck

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• There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Government, Law, Cities

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.416, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.

  Randall Jarrell

  World, Enough, Ends

  "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 119), 1955.

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• Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Lines

  Horace Mann (1861). “Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College”, p.69

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• To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

  Denis Diderot

  Absurdity, Prove, Contrary

  "The Anchor Book of French Quotations with English Translations". Book by Norbert Gutermam, 1963.

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• But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do.

  Diet Eman

  Thinking, Stills, Happens

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• If, by some miracle, you're lucky enough to meet the One, whatever you do, don't let them go. Because you don't get another shot at it. Soulmates aren't like buses; there's not going to be another one along in a minute. That's why they're called 'The One'.

  Alexandra Potter

  Soulmate, Lucky, Enough

  Alexandra Potter (2010). “You're the One that I don't want”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Prayer, People, Grace

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• He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

  Johannes Kepler

  Doe, Crowds, Ephemeral

  Foreword in "De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus" by Johannes Kepler, 1601.

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