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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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• Left to Tell reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of God; that with faith, miracles will always appear; and that forgiveness is the key to freedom. A must-read for all of us in these troubled times.

  Colette Baron-Reid

  Daughter, Son, Keys

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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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• I've seen miracles happen with sound.

  Tom Kenyon

  Sound, Happens

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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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• I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

  Marianne Williamson

  Opportunity, Moments, Embrace

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• Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

  Willa Cather

  Perception, Turns, Surround

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• A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Perception, Belief

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?

  Walker Percy

  Rest Of Your Life, Wells, Asks

  Walker Percy (2011). “Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

  LouAnne Johnson

  Teacher, Class, Students

  LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.8, Macmillan

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• When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.

  Mary Hatwood Futrell

  Teacher, Art, Students

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• The miracle of Sunday is that a dead man lives. The miracle of Saturday is that the eternal Son of God lies dead.

  John Ortberg

  Lying, Son, Sunday

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• Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Mind, Events

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• If you want to experience miracles, you have to believe before seeing.

  Jason Frenn

  Believe, Want, Seeing

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• We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Thinking, Order

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.105, Penguin

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• From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.

  Jeremy Lin

  Jesus, Ideas, People

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

  David Duke

  Vegetables, Ku Klux Klan, Disease

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• The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something for more than a few minutes. When Moses did, God spoke. The trick is to pay attention to what is going on around you long enough to behold the miracle without falling asleep. There is another world, right here within this one, whenever we pay attention.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Fall, Long, Attention

  Lawrence Kushner (2016). “God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know, 25th Anniversary Edition: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning”, p.27, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• One antidote for sexual truancy lies in simply teaching youth the wonder, the miracle, the reverence for the creation of life itself. Life is a divine creation. You don't take chances with creation.

  Sam Levenson

  Sex, Lying, Teaching

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• The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Profound, Genius, Conviction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Suffering, Weapons

  Nando Parrado (2009). “Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.

  Pablo Casals

  Spiritual, Art, Wings

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