Miracle Quotes - Page 36

• Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Over You, Fruit

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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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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• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Stars, Fall

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• We are all miracles. What we do with the miracle is our choice.

  Ron Fletcher

  Choices, Our Choices

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• In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Sides, Logic, Kind

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• How full and rich a world
  Theirs to inhabit is--
  Sweet scent of grass and bloom,
  Playmates' glad symphony,
  Cool touch of western wind,
  Sunshine's divine caress.
  How should they know or feel
  They are in darkness?
  But, oh, the miracle!
  If a Redeemer came,
  Laid finger on their eyes--
  One touch and what a world,
  New-born in loveliness!

  Israel Zangwill

  Sweet, Children, Eye

  Israel Zangwill (1903). “Blind Children”

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• Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it's a miracle that we don't dissolve in our baths.

  Jean Cocteau

  Baths, Said

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• There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

  Robert Breault

  God, Normal, Divine

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• If you have Jesus in your heart, you also have miracles of healing within your hands.

  Marilyn Hickey

  Jesus, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Marilyn Hickey from Nov 17, 2014

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• The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Believe, Order

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

  George Santayana

  Free Gifts, Moments, Existence

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.340, Indiana University Press

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• Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

  Joseph Campbell

  Angel, Technology, Littles

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, Anchor

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Simple, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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• The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

  Ivan Illich

  Medicine, Population, Levels

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• What hymns are sung.
  What praises said.
  For homemade miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Hymns, Bread, Praise

  Louis Untermeyer (1932). “Food and Drink”

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• If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

  Drew Carey

  Frogs, Neat, Wells

  "The Drew Carey Show". www.imdb.com. 1995 - 2004.

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• Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

  Christopher Fry

  Real, Mysterious Things, Hands

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• When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cartoon, Would Be, Fabric

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• When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Age, Old Age

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• When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

  Saint Augustine

  Baby, People, Mind

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• Sometimes we are simply "blown away" and in awe by finding ourselves in the presence of God. Other times, however, even when we are participating in acts of kindness-complimenting others, writing a check to charity, donating time to a good cause-we are oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that moment.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Kindness, Writing, Charity

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