Miracle Quotes - Page 24

• We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

  Virginia Satir

  Essence, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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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• By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Education, Teaching, Giving

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• Don’t just look for your miracle. Become someone else's miracle.

  Joel Osteen

  Looks

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2012

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

  Peter Drucker

  Sports, Damn, Unpredictable

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• I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blessing, Garden, Rivers

  Song: Fighters, Album: The Cool, 2007

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• St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Broken, Littles, Window

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• But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Inspirational, Country, War

  Oriana Fallaci (1972). “Nothing, and So be it”

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• I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both possible and useful. Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep makes 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, I find it both strange and unexplainable.

  Richard Hamming

  Simple, Effectiveness, Numbers

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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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• 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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• 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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• Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite of death is love. How had I missed that? How does anyone miss that? 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, Opposites, Missing

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• We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now performs miracles like the gods of old, creating life from blood cells or bacteria, or a spark of metal. But they're perfect creatures and in that way they couldn't be less human. There are things machines will never do, they cannot possess faith, they cannot commune with God. They cannot appreciate beauty, they cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us, they'll be us.

  Sarah Connor

  Art, Appreciate Beauty, Creating Life

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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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• To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

  Richard Lewontin

  May, Deities, Moments

  "Billions and Billions of Demons". www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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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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• I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions-only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. ... This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Night, Feet, Discovery

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.

  Oswald Chambers

  New Life, Redemption, Moral

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.578, Discovery House

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• The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes.

  Wendell Berry

  Distance, Wine, Air

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• Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Heart, Wonder

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Enough, Mice

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.41, NYU Press

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