Miracle Quotes - Page 31

• Miracles are experiences that take us by surprise.

  Karan Casey

  Surprise

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• Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

  Sophy Burnham

  Religion, Way, Coincidence

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.48, Penguin

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• When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.

  Hugh Elliot

  Faces, Your Face, Feels

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• Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.

  Chip Esten

  Writing, Nashville, Hands

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• All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Sea, Intellectual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Fall, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.413

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• In His discourses, His miracles, His parables, His sufferings, His resurrection, He gradually raises the pedestal of His humanity before the world, but under a cover, until the shaft reaches from the grave to the heavens, whenHe lifts the curtain, and displays the figure of a man on a throne, for the worship of the universe; and clothing His church with His own power, He authorizes it to baptize and to preach remission of sins in His own name.

  Edward Thomson

  Men, Names, Heaven

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• Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Confidence, Thinking, Magic

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.206, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Taken, California, San Francisco

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• The miraculous thing is that miracles do happen.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Miracles Do Happen, Miraculous, Happens

  Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

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• What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Marriage, Couple, Two

  Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Religious, Men

  Reply to an Emancipation Memorial (1862), published in "The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln" edited by Henry Jarvis Raymond and Francis Bicknell Carpenter, (p. 255), 1865.

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• Surviving and thriving in the wake of my mothers loss, I learned to believe in God. He has a plan, if you pay attention to the signs. I am inspired by the absolute proof of miracles.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mother, Believe, Loss

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• I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

  Ali MacGraw

  Emotional, Perfection, People

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• The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Doe, Reason

  Edward Gibbon (1875). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.263

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• The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction.

  Edward Gibbon

  Dream, Eye, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus”, p.155, 谷月社

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• From the point of view of physics, it is a miracle that [seven million New Yorkers are fed each day] without any control mechanism other than sheer capitalism.

  John Henry Holland

  Views, Each Day, Physics

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• There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Language, Reason, Prophet

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.193, Penguin Books India

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• Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Wish, Return

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• Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Law, Looks, Use

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.131, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Winning, Unique

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

  Gayle Forman

  Drug

  Gayle Forman (2015). “I Was Here”, p.132, Penguin

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• My kids are my No. 1 priority. Theyre the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.

  Thalia

  Kids, Eye, Responsibility

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• But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

  David Hume

  Country, Men, Age

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.123, tredition

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