Miracle Quotes - Page 29

• Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

  William J. Clinton

  Middle East, Normal, Quiet

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993”, Government Printing Office

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• In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

  Faith Baldwin

  Legacy, Way, Belief

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• Around the mighty master came
  The marvels which his pencil wrought,
  Those miracles of power whose fame
  Is wide as human thought.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Art, Fame, Masters

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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• God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Nature, Hands, Wind

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• The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses.
  [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, May, Belief

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• I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Thinking, Killing

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

  Agnes Repplier

  Teacher, Profound, Choices

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Japan, People

  "NBC White Paper (If Japan Can... Why Can't We?)". TV Series, June 24, 1980.

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• Everything was a miracle until we solved it. ... the first man who ever saw a flying fish probably thought he was witnessing a miracle - and the first man who ever described a flying fish was doubtless called a liar.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Liars, Men, Flying

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.539, A&C Black

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• This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

  Jane Rule

  Men, Las Vegas, Desert

  Jane Rule (2013). “Desert of the Heart: A Novel”, p.223, Open Road Media

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• When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

  Pierre Corneille

  Silence, Heaven, Suffering

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• Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

  Freya Stark

  Broken, World, Moments

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• What is thy thought? There is no miracle?
  There is a great one, which thou hast not read,
  And never shalt escape. Thyself, O man,
  Thou art the miracle. Ay, thou thyself,
  Being in the world and of the world, thyself,
  Hast breathed in breath from Him that made the world.
  Thou art thy Father's copy of Himself,--
  Thou art thy Father's miracle.

  Jean Ingelow

  Art, Father, Men

  Jean Ingelow, “A Story Of Doom: Book Vii.”

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• miracles occur in psychoanalysis as seldom as anywhere else.

  Karen Horney

  Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis

  Karen Horney (1950). “The Collected Works of Karen Horney: Self analysis. Neurosis and human growth”

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• I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Thinking, Wind, Mind

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

  Thomas Paine

  Whales, Ideas, Religion

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.46, e-artnow

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• A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.

  Robert M. Price

  Simple, Religion, Doe

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.116, Wildside Press LLC

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• Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

  Robert M. Price

  Healing, Mean, Biblical

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• One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracles without believing that every reported miracle must in fact have happened.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Religion, May

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• Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.

  Ayn Rand

  Ambition, Law, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.11, Penguin

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• It is some kind of miracle that all knitting is constructed of only two stitches: knit and purl. Sure, you throw in some yarn overs, and sometimes you knit the stitches out of order, but when it really comes down to it, knitting is simplicity. The most incredible gossamer lace shawl ... the trickiest aran ... a humble sock ... each just made with knit and purl.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Humble, Knitting, Order

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.11, Storey Publishing

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• It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Truth, Scorn, Assistance

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1688, Library of Alexandria

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• Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me.' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.

  Marva Collins

  Kids, Unique, Needs

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• ... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Belief, Sweetheart, Peasants

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1948). “That's Me All Over: All the Favorite Absurdities from Dithers and Jitters, Soap Behind the Ears, and Excuse It, Please! Along with Tiny Garments”

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• I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Results

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